In 2004 Glass invited Uakti to collaborate again, this time on the Orion project.
This incident was reputedly used as part of the technical justification for the Orion project for possible use of nuclear blasts for outer-space propulsion.
At its customer conference starting here Tuesday, the company will take the wraps off its Orion project, which Sun executives discussed for the first time in February.
The Orion 2 project was quickly started to address its problems, and five of these were sold.
The Orion project grew from this datum, and involved nothing less in concept than a series of nukes detonated behind the baseplate of a large vehicle.
The largest spacecraft design analyzed in the Orion project had a 400 m diameter and weighed approximately 8 million tons.
The title derives from the Orion project, which one of the factions intends to resurrect.
It was a precursor concept to the Orion project.
Although the engine was built and underwent a development program, the BE.25 Orion project was cancelled in 1958 by the British Ministry of Supply.
The Orion project was cancelled in January 1958, at a reported total cost of £ 4.75 million.