January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...the opportunity to launch large-aperture telescopes that will provide an unprecedented look at our universe. NASA is developing SLS in parallel with two other exploration systems development efforts - the Orion crew vehicle programme, managed at NASA...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
...calculating schedule margins, making the predicted launch dates for SLS unreliable. Meanwhile, refurbishing engines from the Space Shuttle ...“foreign objects found in various parts” of the first SLS rocket’s core stage, according to the report. Now the...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... to almost $3.5 billion with a period of performance through Sept. 30, 2029, and a total of 24 engines to support as many as six additional SLS flights. “This contract allows NASA to work with Aerojet Rocketdyne to build the rocket engines needed for...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... important step forward to ensure that the core stage of the SLS rocket is ready for the Artemis I mission, and to carry ... the Space Launch System team” said John Honeycutt, the SLS program manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...science, astronauts sitting atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) might ask themselves if the greatest risk to ... one of the biggest issues affecting astronauts launching on NASA’s SLS on future voyages to the Moon and Mars. www.libertybiosecurity....
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
...mission might be facing cut-backs or redundancy, both the SLS and EUS featured heavily in the bill despite many reports ... to surge this year as the company gets ready for the SLS’s inaugural flight in 2021. Interestingly, the new bill also directs...
