Orion Technologies’ Future Plans

EXPLANATION

We have a lot of craft planned, and it may become difficult to understand what we are doing, so this post hopefully will help with that.

OVERVIEW

Basically any craft we upload in the future will fall into 1 of 6 categories:

1: Commercial Reusable Launch Vehicles(a.k.a. The Eagle Program).

2: Reusable Modular Launch Vehicles(a new class of rockets completely different from Eagle family rockets. Similar in design to ULA rockets).

3: Other Commercial Launch Vehicles(commercially developed, privately operated launch vehicles separate from the Eagle Program).

4: Commercial Space Service Vehicles(a.k.a. Phoenix Lander, ShootingStar Kick Stage, Fox Lunar Rover, etc.).

5: Solar System Exploration Missions(NASA-like deep space exploration missions, though harnessing the power of private industry and new technologies).

6: Replica Spacecraft(we won’t do Replica very often, but the few that we do will be built to the highest standards).

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DETAILS

1: Our Eagle Program, our family of advanced, high-efficiency, fully-reusable* launch vehicles. Ranging from the Eaglet, to the Eagle X, and everything in between, Eagle Program rockets cover virtually every payload category and market, all while giving our customers the most reliability and affordable prices there is to offer. Eagle Program Rockets launch out of the Orion-Texas Spaceport(OTS), based on the Eastern Shore of Texas, USA. Our massive integration, test, and launch facility allows the most streamlined ride to space possible. Eagle Program Rockets launch all our CSSVs, ranging from LEO to Mars. Additionally, our fleet of 4 ASDSs(Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships), stationed in the Gulf of America(or Mexico) allow for downrange landings of Eagle Family boosters, thereby increasing payload to orbit. Finally, Eagle Program Rockets are all certified to fly out of Vandenberg Space Force Station, Kennedy Space Center, and our two smallest Eagle Family Rockets are certified to launch out of the Kodiak-Pacific Spaceport.

2: RMLVs, as we call them, are our take on traditional, ULA-style launch vehicles, with the twist of private funding and new technology. Currently we just have three planned. These launch vehicles will all have SRBs coupled with commercial launch vehicle technology, allowing for at least the engine section to be reused. These rockets are not at all related to Eagle Program Rockets, and are crucial to our vision of solar system exploration. Our RMLVs will launch many of our Solar System Exploration Missions and government payloads. They will mainly launch out of Kennedy Space Center.

3: Our category of Other Commercial Launch Vehicles is exactly that it sounds like: every other crazy idea our engineers thought of that didn’t fit into either of the previous two categories. None of these launch vehicles are related Eagle Program or RMLVs, and for that matter, to each other. Every one is different, not similar or connected at all. Ranging from a rocket with a ramjet, to one with a nuclear upper stage, these ones will be wacky sometimes, but all the while cool. They can launch out of anywhere, and typically will not launch any Orion-built payloads.

4: The CSSV program is the largest, most-intricate Commercial Spacecraft program ever imagined. Swaying between tiny lunar rovers to huge Martian landers, this category covers basically anything spacefaring. This category is almost exclusively launched by our Eagle Program Rockets. Almost all spacecraft in this category use the highly-efficient and non-toxic fuel of liquid methane and liquid oxygen. This category includes everything from our space tugs and kick stages, to landers, to rovers and hoppers, to GPS and communication satellites, to logistics vehicles, to crew capsules, to terrestrial testbeds, to orbital tankers, and eventually a commercial reusable Mars delivery system. Typically these spacecraft wont venture further than Mars, as they are focused on more Earth/Lunar missions.

5: Solar System Exploration Missions(our CEO’s personal favorite), aim at vastly expanding our reach and understanding of our Solar System via robotic exploration. Done with new technologies and the super power of private funding and operation, these missions will do not only what NASA did, but exceed this, reaching not just deep into our own system, but other ones too. From comet sample returns, to fast-and-furious interstellar probes, to unimaginably-large space telescopes, this program will explore virtually every known(and unknown) celestial body. Launched mostly via our RMLV program or rockets, these spacecraft will venture into the unknown, going where no probe has gone before. This program is expected to begin late next year.

6: And finally we arrive at Replicas: the tiny category of highly-detailed spacecraft from the real world. This category only includes a few spacecraft/rockets. Our first one was the highly-successful SATGUS. These Replicas will be sparsely scattered throughout our other posts, but when they do appear, they’ll be some of the greatest that you’ll ever see, so be sure to drop them an upvote when they do appear.

CONCLUSION

The next few years will be exciting for Orion Technologies and the JNO Community. Our current plans involve posting 2 craft every week, maybe more. So stay tuned, stay curios, and enjoy! The future is bright, and we will lead the way!

From now on in our posts, there will be an indicator at the end of the description, identifying what category the craft in the post belongs to.