October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... of several new launch vehicles are planned for 2021, including Ariane 6 and the Space Launch System (SLS). And many activities in low Earth orbit will make 2021 memorable, including exciting experiments onboard the...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... mid-to-late 1980s, other AM approaches were being developed with Carl Deckard inventing Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology which fuses powders rather than a liquid by laser, and Scott Crump who first developed Fused...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and smaller size. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B in November 2022. Lessons learned The NASA...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... volume limitations. Today’s launch vehicles have strict payload limits. For example, the Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX Starship, two of the largest proposed heavy-lift rockets, can carry payloads up to hundreds of tons...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
... and cut production time by about two months. Orion is planned for launch on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the end of 2018. “The heat shield we put to the test during Orion’s flight test last...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the 2020s and the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket Congress instructed NASA to build in 2011 will be first in line to see the Exit door, a trip...
