SOI will utilize heritage flight rated and proven technologies to form the basis for manufacturing spacecraft vehicles, and will incorporate the latest up-to-date avionics and flight systems for ensuring safe, reliable and economical operation. Utilizing the best technology and lessons learned from NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs are being incorporated into the new design for SOI’s reusable “Eclipse” spacecraft
The spacecraft will be designed to carry two crewmembers and approximately 10,000 pounds of cargo.
The capsule structure and aerodynamics will be primarily based on the heritage technologies of the NASA Gemini space capsule but will utilize modern technology for such systems as the avionics, power, navigation, communication and other systems where state-of-the-art has far surpassed the technologies available during the 1960's. Some of the technologies that were abandoned in the Gemini Program, such as utilizing landing skids for a runway landing, will be revisited and evaluated for current use.
The addition of a Payload Module aft of the Retrograde and Service Modules has been developed to adapt the spacecraft to the larger diameter of current launch vehicles such as the SpaceX Falcon 9, the Boeing Delta IV, and the Lockheed Martin Atlas V. The Payload Module which will carry the cargo to be delivered to space will also have its own power, propulsion, and navigation systems.
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ECLIPSE SPACECRAFT CAPSULE ON LANDING SKIDS FOR GROUND LANDING
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