Crew Exploration Vehicle
| Crew Exploration Vehicle | ||
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| Use: | Earth / moon / Mars orbit | |
| Launcher: | Ares I ( Altair Lunar Module with Ares V ) | |
| Crew: | up to 4 people | |
| First flight: | October 28, 2009 (unmanned dummy, suborbital) | |
| Status: | transformed into the Orion CEV project , then the Orion MPCV project | |
| Operation area: | Passenger transport to the ISS, the moon and possibly Mars | |
| Dimensions | ||
| Height: | ≈ 3.3 m | |
| Diameter: | ≈ 5 m | |
| Volume under pressure: | 19.55 m³ (≈3 × Apollo) | |
| Crowds | ||
| Rescue system (LAS): | 7,062 kg | |
| Crew module (CM): | 8,913 kg (moon) / 9,706 kg (ISS) | |
| Service module (SM): | 12,336 kg (moon) / 8,807 (ISS) | |
| Missile adapter: | 1,639 kg | |
| Total: | 29,950 kg (moon) / 27,214 kg (ISS) | |
| Engines | ||
| Rescue system | Rescue missile | |
| Service module ( N 2 O 4 / MMH ) | 27 kN (OMS of the shuttle) Backup: 8 * 0.4 kN (from ATV) |
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| Orion CEV Design 2009 | ||
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The Crew Exploration Vehicle ( English roughly "Manned research vehicle ", abbreviated CEV ) was the original name for the Orion MPCV spacecraft from NASA . A year after the Columbia disaster, which occurred in 2003, US President George W. Bush announced the CEV project as the successor to the space shuttle . He named the development program Vision for Space Exploration , which was renamed the Constellation program in 2007 . The goal was to return to the moon, to set up a moon base there and maybe one day fly to Mars . In August 2006 it was announced that Lockheed Martin would become the manufacturer. In 2007 the spacecraft was renamed the Orion CEV . Under US President Barack Obama , the Constellation program was canceled in 2010, but in 2011 the spacecraft under its current name "Orion MPCV" began again. The resumed program was renamed "Orion Program" after the spaceship. Although it was already flown as an Orion CEV as an unmanned dummy as part of the Ares IX test flight , the spacecraft completed its first real test flight as an Orion MPCV under the Orion EFT-1 mission in December 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Braukus, B, Dickey, K. Humphries: NASA Names New Crew Exploration Vehicle Orion. NASA , August 22, 2006, accessed April 3, 2011 .
- ^ Constellation - Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. NASA , January 2009, accessed April 3, 2011 .