17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a snap shot of the...total projected cost through fiscal year 2021 to 2025 is $85.7 billion. The inspector general’s office said about $35 billion of that cost has already been spent on elements ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... from the Space Shuttle programme turned out to be harder, and costlier, than anyone thought. NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) outlined these issues and many others in an audit report (issued 10 March) titled “NASA’s Management of Space...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... contracting choices, NASA estimated SLS would be ready for its first flight test by December 2017. NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported, in January 2014, that the programme was already at risk from an overly aggressive schedule. The...
01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
...the Falcon 9 launch failure. A NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report issued on June 28 examines ...exploration and operations) and Terrence Wilcutt (chief of NASA office of safety and mission assurance) disagree with the recommendation...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... ESA have already committed funding to Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions, while a recent report by the US Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommended that NASA invests in methods and technologies for removing defunct spacecraft from orbit. More...
