Orion

October 12, 2024
News Missions Defense

Space Force X-37B to use new Aerobraking Maneuver

The X-37 spacecraft surrounded by hot plasma, performing aerobraking to change its orbital trajectory around Earth, showing the spacecraft over a sun-lit view of the Earth, with clouds covering the ocean.

The U.S. Space Force vehicle will use aerobraking, employing atmospheric drag to slow itself down, to reach a lower orbit without using extra fuel

Marco Guardabasso

September 18, 2024
Missions News

Scientists Share First Artemis I Radiation Measurements Results

View of ESA's European Service Module that is powering NASA's Orion spacecraft, pointing at our planet and the Moon, taken on the 13th day of flight for the Artemis I mission, 28 November 2022. Credits NASA

These measurements have confirmed the effectiveness of Orion's radiation shielding and will help develop further exposure mitigation strategies

Riccardo Dipietro

May 2, 2024
News Missions Space Agencies

Artemis I and Orion: Now we Know Everything that Went Wrong

At 12:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. Orion will be recovered by NASA’s Landing and Recovery team, U.S. Navy and Department of Defense partners aboard the USS Portland. Nasa via flickr

Thanks to a report from NASA's Office of Inspector General, we now have all the pieces of the puzzle on what went wrong during the first Artemis mission

Edoardo Giammarino

April 4, 2023
News Missions Space Agencies

NASA announced the names of the astronauts selected for Artemis II

Artemis II Crew. Credits: NASA/James Blair

NASA officially announced the astronauts assigned to Artemis II, the mission that will fly around the Moon to confirm all of Orion’s systems operate as designed

Benedetta Facini

January 5, 2023
Insights

ESA had a phenomenal 2022! Let’s see what happened…

Dozens of previously hidden jets and outflows from young stars are revealed in this new image of the Cosmic Cliffs from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The Cosmic Cliffs, a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, has long intrigued astronomers as a hotbed for star formation. Many details of star formation in NGC 3324 remain hidden at visible-light wavelengths. Webb is perfectly primed to tease out these long-sought-after details since it can detect jets and outflows seen only in the infrared at high resolution.

2022 has been a phenomenal year for ESA! We’ve seen many records being broken together with a lot of “first times” and today we're gonna talk about all of them.

Filippo Zamprogna

December 24, 2022
Insights

Let’s discover Orion, NASA’s new spacecraft

Orion capsule in orbit around the Moon. Photo Credits: NASA

NASA’s new spacecraft Orion is gonna bring humanity where we've never been before! Let's dig into it's long history and learn more this capsule.

Filippo Zamprogna

December 12, 2022
News Missions Space Agencies

SPLASHDOWN, Orion capsule is back on Earth!

Artemis I Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5-day mission to the Moon. NASA is now reviewing the data preparing for Artemis II.