Orion

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Orion spacecraft

Artist's rendering of the Orion spacecraft with four solar panel arrays, shown orbiting above Earth's atmosphere against the blackness of space.

Orion

spacecraft

Also known as: Crew Exploration Vehicle

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- Constellation program
  …Crew Exploration Vehicle, was named Orion, after the constellation. Orion would have been 5 metres (16 feet) in diameter and would have had a launch mass of 22,700 kg (50,000 pounds). It would have consisted of a conical crew module and a cylindrical service module and would have been able…
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  …Crew Exploration Vehicle, was named Orion, after the constellation. Orion would have been 5 metres (16 feet) in diameter and would have had a launch mass of 22,700 kg (50,000 pounds). It would have consisted of a conical crew module and a cylindrical service module and would have been able…
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