December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
.... Innovation, investment and understanding A 5 per cent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep-space missions, including...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... next-generation human spaceflight vehicles, Orion and Space Launch System (SLS), our astronauts will travel to the redirected asteroid in the lunar... 40 years. In the later, crewed mission the SLS will launch the astronauts in the Orion into cislunar ...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in mid-2018 NASA is developing its own deep space solar...the first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in mid-2018 and deploy from it after the Orion crew capsule...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...as a co-manifested payload on the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) to a lunar distant retrograde orbit, a stable lunar orbit .... The element masses totalled 11 metric tons, while the SLS co-manifested cargo mass capability is 10 metric tons. Refined ...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
..., and the effect of this on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Former President George W Bush introduced a plan to create a ... Mars, has had its effect on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). About the authors Lauren Napier has a BS in Communications and ...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... for EM1, NASA’s inaugural flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) in 2019 or 2020. These missions will be led by the... Several science-led lunar-focused CubeSats missions aboard NASA SLS EM1 hinge on successful use of unconventional and experimental ...
