25 October 2019
Jim Bridenstine discusses impact of Trump impeachment on NASA plans
... have said just over US$500 million of the supplemental request is for the agency's Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket programs needed for the missions; while the remainder would be a start toward the development...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
...to be studied by a spacecraft. After the spacecraft launches aboard the Artemis I uncrewed test flight this spring,... 10 secondary payloads aboard NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, currently scheduled for launch no earlier than March. The ...
29 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... rocket has completed all of the steps needed to pass a critical design review (commonly referred to as CDR). The Space Launch System (otherwise known as SLS) is the first vehicle that was designed with the journey to Mars in mind...
02 August 2017
First iodine fuelled thrusters pass critical design tests
... for an internal hot cathode. The thruster is targeted for use on two deep-space CubeSat missions that will hitch a ride on NASA’s Space Launch System; Morehead State University’s Lunar IceCube and Arizona State University’s LunaH-Map...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
...released a snap shot of the costs associated with the space agency’s Artemis programme to land astronauts on the moon. ...cost has already been spent on elements such as Orion, the Space Launch System (SLS) and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), but that...
10 January 2023
Artemis I - Return to the Moon
...Moon with the Constellation programme and its Ares launch vehicles. We get a feel for the politics involved in the transition to the Space Launch System (SLS) and the various capsules ... in the same series on subsequent missions. Watch this space!
