Aerojet Rocketdyne recently passed a key milestone in preparation for the Ascent Abort Test (AA-2) next year with the successful casting of the Jettison Motor for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion ...

My point was that the Orion hardware was stable enough for a heat shield test a couple years ago. Why is the abort tower only now mature enough? If multiple aspects of a project like this cannot be ...

On May 6, 2010, NASA successfully launched the Orion Pad Abort-1 flight test from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This critical test proved that the Orion spacecraft could safely perform an ...

Throwing away the test vehicle because they didn't want to add chutes to the testing regime seems to be a nutshell of everything wrong with the Orion and SLS programs. Click to expand... Several ...