17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
...flight was followed shortly afterwards with an announcement that the SLS/Orion mission would not be taking astronauts with it on...work constructing the Orion spacecraft, its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground and launch facilities (Ground ...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
...the transition. The five-segment solid rocket boosters on the SLS rocket (slightly larger than those used on NASA's Space ...1 rocket to launch Orion, also found new life in the SLS. By early morning today indications were that NASA would not make...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
...assembling the main structural components for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage - the largest rocket stage the ...the world’s most powerful rocket,” said Julie Bassler, the NASA SLS stages manager. “Now, to complete the stage, NASA will ...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
...first need to occur; Artemis I is a test launch of SLS and an uncrewed Orion, which has now been delayed until at ...the great undertakings of humanity - the scope of it from SLS to Orion to Gateway, human landing systems, ground systems, communications...
24 August 2022
Moon mission's human-rated European Service Module is giant leap for ESA
... as “modest” compared to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle. “Nevertheless, this will ...the 98-metre high stack, consisting of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft currently sitting on the launchpad at ...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... for additive manufacturing of large structures, and polymers are typically processed via Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), stereo-lithography (also used on ceramics) or Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM). Today, AM is a standard manufacturing process...
