by Ben | Jul 27, 2022 | NASA, Press Releases
As NASA prepares for the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon this summer as part of Artemis, the agency is moving toward a services contract model for long-term SLS hardware production and...
by Ben | Oct 22, 2021 | NASA, Press Releases
NASA has completed stacking of the agency’s mega-Moon rocket and spacecraft that will launch the next generation of deep space operations, including Artemis missions on and around the Moon. Engineers and technicians successfully secured the Orion spacecraft atop the...
by Ben | May 31, 2021 | NASA, Press Releases
NASA has awarded Dynetics Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama, a contract to produce a Laser Air Monitoring System (LAMS) for the agency’s Orion spacecraft beginning with the Artemis III mission. The LAMS contract is valued at $17.8 million for production of the...
by Ben | Jul 3, 2019 | NASA, Press Releases
DALLAS, July 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Jacobs (NYSE:JEC), in support of NASA, successfully completed a crucial full-stress flight test of the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System (LAS), verifying the abort system can steer the spacecraft and astronauts...
by Ben | Nov 14, 2018 | NASA, Press Releases
NASA is hosting an event at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9 a.m. EST Friday, Nov. 16, to celebrate the arrival of the European Service Module for the agency’s Orion spacecraft. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will preside over the event, which...