Aerojet Rocketdyne says it’s received a $67 million contract award from Lockheed Martin to provide propulsion systems for the Orion spacecraft that’ll carry astronauts to the moon during three ...

A Virginia-based propulsion-focused company conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and ...

NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I mission successfully completed a journey that propelled the Orion spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. Explore NASA’s new rocket and trace the trajectory of ...

The GAO determined that 14 of 18 NASA projects assessed were within cost and schedule margins during fiscal 2025, but four programs—led by the Orion deep-space crew capsule—are over budget by a total ...

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The close approach of 81 miles occurred as the crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies were on the far side of the moon. Astronauts will take Orion for a ride around the moon as early as 2024.

NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully tested the most powerful segmented solid rocket motor ever created at Promontory Point ...

The uncrewed Orion capsule of NASA's Artemis I mission sailed within 80 miles (130 km) of the lunar surface on Monday, achieving the closest approach to the moon for a spacecraft built to carry ...

Orion still has work to do, of course. Its mission will not be complete until the spacecraft maneuvers back around the Moon, returns to Earth, survives reentry into the atmosphere, splashes down ...

Utah has a significant role, being the "factory" for the propulsion systems used by the SLS rocket. The new booster rocket ...

Climbing approximately one mile high (1.6 km), the uncrewed Orion rode atop the thrust from four solid rocket motors that were mounted to a skirt at the bottom of the 33-foot-tall (10 m) vehicle.

Orion passed about 79 miles above the lunar surface on Monday as the spacecraft fired its thrusters for a "powered flyby burn," designed to change the vehicle's velocity and set it on course for ...