Representatives from Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are slated to convene in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss progress and final preparations for NASA’s Artemis I uncrewed mission in lunar orbit.
Lockheed Martin has recognized Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business as a supplier of cables and other radio frequency interconnect platforms in support of development work on NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business and a four-time Wash100 award recipient, told Yahoo Finance in a video posted Tuesday about the manned mission to the moon by 2024.
Lockheed Martin has awardedCollins Aerospace a $320M contract to supply subsystems for the Orion spacecraft that NASA will use for future Artemis missions aimed at establishing sustained human presence on the moon.
NASA’s Redstone Test Center has concluded hot-fire tests of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-built jettison motor for the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system.
Lockheed Martin is preparing its Orion spacecraft for testing activities at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Cleveland ahead of the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar orbit test flight, NASA Spaceflightreported Friday.
Northrop Grumman has conducted a hot-fire test of an attitude control motor on the Orion spacecraft's crew safety system. NASA said Friday Northrop's ACM technology generated over 7K pounds of thrust from multiple valves during the 30-second test, which took place Thursday at a company facility in Elkton, Md.
Lockheed Martin finished constructing the Orion spacecraft’s crew capsule ahead of NASA’s planned Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence announced during his visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are expected in the coming weeks to integrate the crew module with the service module for the agency’s Orion spacecraft in preparation for the vehicle’s unmanned test flight mission to the lunar orbit, Artemis 1, in 2020, Spaceflight Now reported Monday.
Raytheon has partnered with NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory to develop equipment and procedures for safely recovering astronauts from theLockheed Martin-built Orion capsule upon its reentry to Earth through an ocean landing.