10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... Orion during the media teleconference. Initially reported to cost $6.7 billion, expenditure for the spacecraft that...occur; Artemis I is a test launch of SLS and an uncrewed Orion, which has now been delayed until at least February 2022, while Artemis...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... to long development programs and ongoing testing, SLS and Orion present low technology risks to a Mars orbital mission.’ ... the development and operation of the core architectural elements I.e the Orion, SLS, the Gateway, and the DST, between FY 2019 ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... in the OIG report. Expendable SLS rockets are NASA’s plan for launching heavy payloads, especially the Orion capsule intended to carry astronauts to the Moon. SLS “represents the largest development of space flight capabilities NASA...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... (TLI). The crew configuration of the Block 1B vehicle will carry up to an additional 10 tons of payload along with the Orion spacecraft. The Block 2 configuration will increase that performance to more than 130 metric tons to LEO, and at least...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...), designed for a new era of human exploration beyond Earth orbit. Equipped to launch crews of up to four in NASA’s Orion spacecraft, its first significant test is Artemis, the much-publicised mission to land American astronauts “including the first...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...ATV) and the European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. More than 40 per cent of European ISS ... 2018 to support the search for a suitable place for the main spacecraft to acquire a sample that will be returned to Earth. In addition...
