VS-30 rockets are also used. Two Orion versions exist: Orion, using a Aerojet M22E8 dual-thrust motor (from the MIM-23A Hawk missile). Improved Orion using...
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Look up Orion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orion may refer to: Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter Orion (mythology), a hunter...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orión. Orión was the designation of a sounding rocket of Argentina, which was launched between 1965 and 1971 at...
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Orion is a series of American solid-fuel rocket stages, developed and manufactured by a joint venture between Hercules Aerospace and Alliant Techsystems...
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(28 feet 3 inches). The Nike Orion has a Nike base stage, taken from U.S. Army surplus stocks, and an Orion upper stage. The Nike Orion is 9.01 metres (29 feet...
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Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists...
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The Terrier Orion sounding rocket is a combination of the Terrier booster rocket with the Orion rocket used as a second stage. This spin stabilized configuration...
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Supporters of Project Orion felt that it had potential for cheap interplanetary travel. From Project Longshot to Project Daedalus, Mini-Mag Orion, and other proposals...
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Space Launch System (redirect from SLS rocket)
2021. SLS/Orion Production and Operating Costs Will Average Over $4 Billion Per Launch [...] We project the cost to fly a single SLS/Orion system through...
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Taurus Orion is the designation of a two-stage sounding rocket, consisting of a Taurus starting stage and an Orion upper stage. The Taurus Orion has a...
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Orion 1 or Orion-1 may refer to: Exploration Flight Test-1, the first test launch of the Orion space capsule in 2014 Orión (rocket), a sounding rocket...
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Constellation program (redirect from Orion Asteroid Mission)
Constellation, including the Orion crew capsule, the Earth Departure Stage secondary booster, and the Altair lunar lander. The Orion spacecraft was designed...
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Artemis I (category Orion (spacecraft))
integrated flight test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and its main objective was to test the Orion spacecraft, especially its...
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sounding rocket. The double stage Rigel (first stage Canopus 1, second stage Orion-2) was launched seven times between 1969 and 1973. The Rigel rocket has...
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Artemis II (redirect from Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System)
second launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and include the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft. The mission is scheduled for no earlier...
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Artemis program (category Orion (spacecraft))
of the Moon prior to the launch of SLS/Orion. After Starship HLS reaches NRHO, SLS/Orion will send the Orion spacecraft with a crew of four to rendezvous...
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Nuclear pulse propulsion (section Project Orion)
close of the 1940s to the mid-1950s. Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. A design was formed at General Atomics during...
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Northrop Grumman Pegasus (redirect from Pegasus rocket)
Pegasus XL, the first and second stages are lengthened into the Orion 50SXL and Orion 50XL, respectively. Higher stages are unchanged; flight operations...
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A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without...
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improved variant as a P-3 Orion replacement later canceled. Orion 21 proposed new-build and improved variant as a P-3 Orion replacement; lost to the Boeing...
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the Bold Orion was used in early anti-satellite weapons testing, performing the first interception of a satellite by a missile. The Bold Orion missile...
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Exploration Flight Test-1 (redirect from Orion 1 (spaceflight))
known as Orion Flight Test 1 or OFT-1) was a technology demonstration mission and the first flight test of the crew module portion of the Orion spacecraft...
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Orion, also known as Mentor or Advanced Orion, is a class of United States spy satellites that collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) from space. Operated...
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A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
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Rocket propellant is used as reaction mass ejected from a rocket engine to produce thrust. The energy required can either come from the propellants themselves...
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Artemis V (category Orion (spacecraft))
The mission will launch four astronauts on a Space Launch System rocket and an Orion to the Lunar Gateway and will be the third lunar landing of the Artemis...
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Ares I (redirect from Ares I rocket)
heavy cargo launch rockets. The Ares I rocket was specifically being designed to launch the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Orion was intended as a crew...
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vehicle, consisting of an M55A1 first stage, SR19 second stage, Orion 50XL third stage, Orion 38 fourth stage, and optional HAPS fifth stage for velocity...
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Delta IV (redirect from Delta 4 rocket)
Plane, which eventually became the Crew Exploration Vehicle and then the Orion. Orion was intended to fly on the Ares I launch vehicle, then the Space Launch...
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Delta IV Heavy (redirect from Delta-4 Heavy rocket)
CBCs as liquid rocket boosters instead of the GEM-60 solid rocket motors used by the Delta IV Medium+ versions. At lift-off, all three rocket engines would...
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