2024年12月4日 · Orion will launch on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. Four astronauts will venture around the Moon in Orion on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA's path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis.

Orion is launched atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with a tower launch escape system. Orion was conceived in the early 2000s by Lockheed Martin as a proposal for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) to be used in NASA's Constellation …

2024年12月16日 · NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft atop launches the agency’s Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16 from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The primary goals for Artemis I are to demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment and ensure a safe re-entry, descent, splashdown, and recovery prior to the first flight with crew on Artemis II. Learn more. Mission Facts: Launch date: Nov. 16, 2022; Mission duration: 25 days, 10 hours, 53 minutes; Total distance traveled: 1.4 ...

The Artemis I Orion spacecraft began fueling and pre-launch servicing in the Multi-Payload Processing Facility on January 16, 2021, following a handover to NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS).

2022年11月16日 · Orion will fly close to the Moon and use a precisely timed engine firing in conjunction with the Moon's gravity to accelerate back toward Earth – traveling at 25,000 mph as it enters the planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft …

Orion is a critical component for NASA’s deep space exploration plans. During Artemis I, the spacecraft will launch on the most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown – 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission.

Launched on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) super heavy-lift rocket, Orion is designed to carry humans farther into space for longer periods of time than ever before, withstanding higher levels of radiation and re-entry speeds than any previous human-rated spacecraft.

2022年11月16日 · Carrying an uncrewed Orion, SLS lifted off for its flight test debut at 1:47 a.m. EST on Wednesday from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch is just the first leg of a mission that will last more than three weeks.

The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft are humanity's ticket back to the Moon. The powerful duo proved themselves during the uncrewed Artemis I test flight, and in 2026 they will team up to send a crew around the Moon during Artemis II .