Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion is NASA’s deep-space crew spacecraft for Artemis missions. The partially reusable system combines a Lockheed Martin-built crew module with a European Service Module and launch abort system, supports four astronauts for missions of up to 21 days, and returns the crew module to Earth by ocean splashdown.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Orion MPCVNASA OrionOrion spacecraft
- Family Name
- Orion
- Full Name
- Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
- Roles
- crewed_spacecraft
- Status
- active
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Orion is NASA’s deep-space crew spacecraft for Artemis missions. The partially reusable system combines a Lockheed Martin-built crew module with a European Service Module and launch abort system, supports four astronauts for missions of up to 21 days, and returns the crew module to Earth by ocean splashdown.
- Dimensions
- Height
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- First Flight Year
- 2,014
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Count
- 8
- Placement
- spacecraft
- Propulsion System
- Role
- maneuvering
- Stage
- service-module
- Variant Notes
- Eight exact R-4D-11 auxiliary engines; NASA places them on the bottom of the service module in four sets of two for trajectory corrections and backup to the main engine.
- Name
- Orion European Service Module R-4D-11 auxiliary propulsion
- Notes
- Service-module auxiliary engines only: eight R-4D-11 units in four sets of two at the bottom of the service module. The Orion capsule hydrazine RCS, 24 ArianeGroup RCS engines, and any main-engine or mission-specific alternatives remain intentionally unmodeled in this packet.
- Spacecraft Specs
- Launch Mass
- …
- Reusability
- partially_reusable
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)
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- Creation Time
- April 26, 2026 at 14:21:49 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 20, 2026 at 23:00:18 UTC
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