Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft has finished structural testing and is structurally prepared for its first launch in September, 2014. The capsule was tested to 110% of expected loads from such ...

A structural test model is a version of a spacecraft designed to examine the mechanical aspects of the design. It includes all the parts of the module that contribute to its overall integrity, ...

Several hundred million dollars allocated by service for refits on P-3C Orions The US Navy has stabilized the future of the Lockheed Martin P-3C Orion submarine-hunting fleet with an injection of ...

Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, conducted a successful structural qualification test January 26 on its abort motor case that is being manufactured for ...

Credit: Structural test article for European Service Module: Thales Alenia Space A duplicate of the service module that the European Space Agency (ESA) will provide as its contribution to NASA’s Orion ...

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) intends to negotiate a contract with the Neerim Corporation of Mountain View, CA, as the only responsible source to lead the ORION Main Heatshield ablator and ...

The US space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), has announced that structural testing of its Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission had been successfully concluded.

In a major step towards NASA’s efforts to regain the ability to send humans into space, the structural test model of the service module for the Orion spacecraft has been delivered for testing to the ...