January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... vehicle. Beginning with Block 1B and the EM-2 mission, a Universal Stage Adapter will allow a payload to fly with Orion with as much accommodation volume as the current industry-standard 5 m diameter fairing. The Block 1B configuration will also...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
...kilograms,” he said. However, whether or not this payload can then be transferred to Earth in its entirety inside the Orion spacecraft is not so clear cut. In presentations by NASA officials at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration and Analysis...
25 October 2021
NASA is targeting Feb 2022 for first Artemis launch
...completed stacking the huge 98 metre-tall (322-foot) SLS/Orion system at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Completing ...available, each lasting around 26 days. During the mission, Orion will be sent on a close flyby approximately 100 kilometres ...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... communication system 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...
04 February 2021
Three more service modules for Artemis to be built in Europe
....” “Europe has entered a new decade of exploration,” said Andreas Hammer, Head of Space Exploration at Airbus, “Building six Orion European Service Modules is a venture like no other. Airbus has some of the world’s best minds in space exploration...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
...was followed shortly afterwards with an announcement that the SLS/Orion mission would not be taking astronauts with it on its...Inspector General. NASA has been hard at work constructing the Orion spacecraft, its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the...
