29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
NASA’s ‘imaginatively’ named Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that can ferry humans to and from the Moon for the first time in 50 years is on launch pad 39B this morning (Monday) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A two-hour launch window for today...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
... Artemis program includes landing the first person of colour on the lunar surface. The agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for their multi-day journey to lunar orbit. There...
02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... in uncrewed mode, during the EFT-1 test flight out to 5,800 km beyond low-Earth orbit. An Orion launch on the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will occur in 2017. The SLS has Boeing as its main contractor, with...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... Processing Facility to the Launch Abort System Facility on July 10 for Orion’s emergency launch-abort system to be added. Next, at KSC’s Vertical Assembly Facility, Orion will be placed atop NASA’s first Space Launch System rocket. Bill Nelson...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... they are developing the Long March 9 – a Saturn V-class super-heavy-lift rocket comparable in capacity to NASA’s Space Launch System – that will be capable of lifting 50 tons to a Earth-Moon transfer orbit, and 44 tons to a Earth-Mars transfer orbit...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
.... The Exploration portion of the budget (which includes most of the Artemis program) will see the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS), receive $2,585.9 million, of which $300 million is for the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS); Orion gets...
