21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... System (SLS) is due to fly an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon is also highly unlikely to achieve its ...programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems—NASA senior leaders acknowledged the ...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
.... In the early 1990s, radar imaging from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft revealed a world of volcanoes and extensive lava flows. But ...suggests that the lava flows examined by the Venus Express spacecraft are no more than several years old say Filiberto and...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... of polar craters and perpetually covered in darkness. It's a few years off yet, but when ESA’s Bepi-Colombo spacecraft enters Mercury’s orbit in 2025, with a suite of instruments designed to study the surface and internal composition of the...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... for NASA’s first human deep-space exploration mission, scheduled to launch in 2022 onboard the Orion spacecraft. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for long-duration, deep-space exploration by humans. Harris was selected by Lockheed Martin...
21 September 2016
China's first space lab is heading for a crash landing
...seen contact with the Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spacecraft and in a statement by Wu Ping, deputy ... Ping highlighted China’s commitment to the plight of its plunging spacecraft, which in the recent past has been reported as being out...
04 February 2021
Three more service modules for Artemis to be built in Europe
...three more European Service Modules for Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will fly astronauts to the Moon and lunar...astronauts to the Moon. As the powerhouse for the Orion spacecraft it provides propulsion and the consumables astronauts need to stay alive...
