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PROGRAM UPDATEMarch 2012

History

FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11

Orion Contract Awarded

Pad Abort 1 Flight Test Vehicle Built

Launch Abort Motor Test

Orion Water Landing Recovery Training

Heat ShieldPrototype Developed

Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle ConceptDeveloped

ParachuteTests

LAS Attitude Control Motor Test

Orion namedMulti-Purpose Crew Vehicle

May 2011

Phase I: Design Trades Phase II: Spacecraft Development MPCV

Pad

Abort 1 Stacking

Pad Abort 1Flight Test

SuccessMay 2010

First Orion Environmental Testing

Source: NASA

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Launch Abort System and Crew ModuleAcoustic and Vibration Tests

3Image Credit: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Reverberant Acoustic Laboratory – Denver, Colorado- Full-Scale Spacecraft Testing- Simulates Launch Acoustic Forces & Vibrations - Validates Structural Integrity of the Spacecraft

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Vibration Tests in VTF

4Image Credit: Lockheed Martin

Exploration Flight Test 1

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Upper Stage 1st Engine Start

Upper Stage 1st Engine Cut-OffUpper Stage

2nd Engine Start

Upper Stage 2nd Engine Cut-Off

Boost Stage 1

Upper Stage Burn

Coast

EFT-1 Overview• 2 Revolutions • Low Inclination• High Apogee• High Energy Entry

Recovery

CM/Upper Stage

Separation

Upper Stage Disposal Burn

CM Translation

BurnLV/Upper

Stage Sep

LAS Jettison

SM Fairing

Sep

CM Translation Burn

Source: NASA

Lunar flyby

Plymouth Rock: Humans explore asteroid 2008 EA9 and others

Explore the Moon’s far side from Earth-Moon L2 point

SLS test flight

Asteroid survey Asteroid scout

Deimos Scout

Stepping StonesA series of exploration missions building incrementally towards America’s long- term goal of exploring Mars.

A human mission to the moons of Mars will require capabilities such as heavy-lift launch ,

Red Rocks: exploreMars from Deimos

Deimos photo courtesy of NASA-JPL, University of Arizona

Notional mission concepts: Lockheed Martin

Image Credit: Lockheed Martin

For more information:

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www.lockheedmartin.com/orion

Presentation content courtesy of NASA