29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... 2024, Hera is the European contribution to an international double-spacecraft collaboration. After travelling to the Didymos pair of near-Earth ...and the European service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Another big winner of the meeting was...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... Artist’s illustration depicting a ‘Plymouth Rock’ asteroid mission with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet Union, helping to deplete ...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... Russia, are also planning lunar exploration programmes. A view of the full Gateway configuration with an approaching Orion spacecraft. Artemis activities will be just as different. Instead of the ‘flags and footprints’ of Apollo, the Artemis Program...
09 November 2016
How a Trump presidency might affect US space policy
... Trump administration will take a hard look at costly NASA programmes, such as the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, which could be replaced by cheaper, private alternatives. During the campaign Trump admitted in response to one question that...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... unhappy with the apparent slow progress of the Artemis lunar program and its key elements, the Orion spacecraft and the behemoth rocket that will carry it to the Moon and beyond, the Space Launch System...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
... Kennedy Space Center,” Nelson said. “That rocket is the Space Launch System (SLS). It will launch our Orion spacecraft and cargo missions to lunar orbit and beyond.” “Beyond” may suggest he expects NASA to continue building the...
