The National Interest

P-3 Orion: The Plane Built to Hunt and Kill Russia’s Submarines

Though the P-3 Orion is slowly but surely being replaced by the Boeing P-8 Poseidon for ASW work, the transition is far from complete. The older Orion — unlike other famous Cold War-era Navy warplanes ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The P-3 Orion Was Made for Hunting Submarines

How Lockheed’s P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Robert Bernier A P-3C Orion assigned to VP-46 commands the ramp at Washington’s Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in 2017. U.S. Navy/ Petty ...
Aviation Week

Lockheed P-3

The Lockheed P-3 Orion is an antisubmarine-warfare (ASW)/maritime-patrol aircraft produced through 1997 and operated by 17 nations. Lockheed won a U.S. Navy ASW competition in 1958 and began ...
GovCon Wire

Lockheed to Deploy Lunar Imaging CubeSat With 2018 NASA Orion Mission

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 10, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will launch a CubeSat lunar research satellite with Orion‘s Exploration Mission-1 in 2018 under a contract with NASA, ExecutiveBiz ...
Orlando Sentinel

NASA takes possession of Orion for Artemis II moon mission

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Orion space capsule, transferred ...

Once unthinkable, NASA and Lockheed now consider launching Orion on other rockets

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big ...