04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... controllers are built by Honeywell Aerospace in Clearwater, Florida, a major subcontractor to Aerojet Rocketdyne. The SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, Gateway and Human Landing System are part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration. Work is well...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... of waste heat generated. In the case of nuclear-powered spacecraft, long distances are necessitated due to safety considerations, and the...the world. Artist’s impression of the Orion spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. Radiation shielding The...
02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
... corps, more will be needed to serve as crew aboard spacecraft bound for multiple destinations and propel exploration forward as part of...NASA’s powerful new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions to the Moon. Beginning in...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
.... The four Crew-3 astronauts were launched in a new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, dubbed Endurance, atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre... (ESM-1) power NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its journey around the Moon and back to Earth.
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... 2024, Hera is the European contribution to an international double-spacecraft collaboration. After travelling to the Didymos pair of near-Earth ...and the European service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Another big winner of the meeting was...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... Artist’s illustration depicting a ‘Plymouth Rock’ asteroid mission with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet Union, helping to deplete ...
