Last mentioned: Feb 25, 2026
Artemis I Success
Uncrewed SLS and Orion complete maiden flight around the Moon.
Schedule Realignment
NASA officially delays Artemis II crewed flight to September 2025 citing safety concerns.
VAB Rollback
NASA initiates return to VAB for critical repairs after pad testing identifies technical issues.
NASA has initiated the rollback of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) from Launch Pad 39B to the Vehicle Assembly Building following the identification of technical issues requiring a controlled environment. This maneuver signals a potential shift in the launch window for the first crewed lunar mission in over half a century.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Orion Spacecraft across our space & defense coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running space & defense beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Orion Spacecraft was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |