01 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... hasn’t publicly denied the feasibility of a 2024 Moon landing, an intentionally ambitious goal set by the administration of ... the same time the agency has paused work on the Human Landing System for Artemis 3 to address a lawsuit by Blue Origin....
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... rapid acquisition of lunar payload delivery services; the recent contract to SpaceX for the development of the Human Landing System (HLS); and ESA’s Commercial Partnerships and Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services (CLMSS) for the provision...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
...hot fire test was a big milestone for the Space Launch System team” said John Honeycutt, the SLS program manager at ... that will carry astronauts to space, along with the human landing system and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon, are NASA’s backbone...
03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
...to deliver cargo to the ISS, as well as build NASA’s Human Landing System as part of its Artemis Programme, in order to reduce costs. ...programs,” said Wendy Williams, vice president, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman. “This new booster design will ...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... Aerospace in Clearwater, Florida, a major subcontractor to Aerojet Rocketdyne. The SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, Gateway and Human Landing System are part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration. Work is well underway on both the Artemis I and...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... vehicle have already started to come together. Whereas Artemis 2 astronauts will orbit the Moon without landing, a separate human landing system would take Artemis 3 astronauts to the Moon’s surface. Lockheed Martin has agreed to build as few as six...
