New Orion Design Saves Weight
Credit: NASA
NASA's Orion next-generation human spacecraft project will lose about 1,000 lb. of the mass it carries to orbit with a newly adopted redesign of the service module that flies just aft of the pressurized crew capsule. Orion also may save some more weight toward its 25-ton target from an ongoing...
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