First Launch of Orion Spacecraft

Post date: Aug 03, 2014 2:17:55 PM

Dec. 4, 2014

Mission: First Launch of New Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1

Description: Orion's first unmanned flight test, called Exploration Flight Test-1, will launch this year atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37. This test will evaluate launch and high speed re-entry systems such as avionics, attitude control, parachutes and the heat shield.

NASA's first Orion spacecraft and service module stack

On Thursday (Sept. 11), the space agency's first Orion space capsule and service module stack was transported from an operations and checkout building at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida to a nearby building, where it will be fueled before launching into space.

Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1)

4.5 hour mission profile

Test Flight EFT-1 in orbit configeration