18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
... in Florida this week as the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B in...at the Moon in preparation for human missions to Mars. SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, along with the human landing system...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
... there as it targets an eventual crewed mission to Mars. NASA’s giant SLS rocket was poised to make a second attempt to fly today (Saturday) ... want to avoid a launch conflict. That means the SLS launch likely will slip into the next launch period, ...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... costs, including a $1 billion deficit needed in order to get SLS off the ground, means that the earliest Artemis-1 will be ready... delay for the three programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
...vehicle assembly building at KSC,” Nelson added, saying the first SLS for the uncrewed test flight “will be the most powerful... Space Shuttle. The development programme to build the first SLS is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget...
29 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... to as CDR). The Space Launch System (otherwise known as SLS) is the first vehicle that was designed with the journey to...and passed its own CDR back in August). The first crewed flight of SLS and Orion is likely to happen in 2023 – which is a bit...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
...boosters' combined output of 32,000 kN will provide over 75% of SLS' total thrust at liftoff and burn approximately six tons of propellant per...will next be used on the maiden flight of the SLS on Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), scheduled for the second ...
