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Orion Lite is an unofficial name used in the media for a lightweight crew capsule proposed by Bigelow Aerospace in collaboration with Lockheed Martin. It was to be based on the Orion spacecraft that Lockheed Martin was developing for NASA. It was never developed. It was to be a lighter, less capable and a less expensive version of the full ...
NASA artist rendering, from 1999, of the Project Orion pulsed nuclear fission spacecraft. Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, [1] and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft.
An artist's conception of the Project Orion "basic" spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse propulsion.. Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust. [1]
NASA's ambitious 21st-century lunar campaign requires a powerful rocket and a tough spaceship. They just launched for the first time.
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded the contract to build Orion on August 31, 2006. [citation needed] Other boilerplates would be used to test thermal, electromagnetic, audio, mechanical vibration conditions and research studies. These tests for the Orion spacecraft would be done at Plum Brook Station in the agency's Ohio-based Glenn Research Center.
Endurance – NASA spacecraft/space station hybrid capable of traveling through wormholes, mothership to Rangers and Landers in Interstellar [54] Lander – two cargo spacecraft used in the Endurance mission to transport materials from the Endurance to Mann's planet; Lander 1 is later used by TARS to propel the craft far enough from SMBH Gargantua.
On 31 August 2006, NASA selected Lockheed Martin Corp., based in Bethesda, Maryland, as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, U.S.-European spacecraft for a new generation of explorers. As of 21 May 2011, the Orion spacecraft is being developed for crewed missions to Moon and then to Mars.
Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022; Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft; Orion, the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission; Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites; A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat