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...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...a valve problem, it is now a good time to review the SLS programme (relying, where possible, on audited facts). Questionable contracting Back ... that Congress could make informed funding decisions on SLS. SLS appeared to be $400 million over budget at ...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
...is the less-imaginatively named Space Launch System (SLS). So far, the SLS has conducted a single launch, for the Artemis ... correct configuration) is not an evening’s work The Artemis-SLS programme, formally announced in April 2019, had predicted an ...
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...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...than 1.6 million pounds of thrust within seven seconds. The SLS is an incredible feat of engineering and the only rocket ...“Today’s successful hot fire test of the core stage for the SLS is an important milestone in NASA’s goal to return humans to ...
