03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
... to $3.19 billion to support the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket through 2031. The award includes follow-on production and...leverages our previous investments and existing infrastructures in SLS and supports long-term sustainability of NASA’s ...
23 January 2026
Back to the Moon with Artemis
... once (without a crew), on the Artemis I mission in November 2022. Clearly, if the Artemis programme as a whole is to be successful, the SLS must continue to perform. Following the Artemis II launch from Kennedy Space Center, Orion and an upper stage...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... in July 1969 of the first Apollo lunar landing mission. The large version of NASA’s new heavy lift SLS rocket will be 40 feet taller than a Saturn V, coming in at about 400 feet. Mars has about 38 per cent...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... he has support from within NASA, if not from those parts of NASA most directly interested in the Orion-SLS (Space Launch System) programme. What he is clearly trying to do is to start a snowball effect to which a variety of entities from both...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... to 13 cubesats, hitching a ride on the first flight of NASA’s new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), planned for 2018. LunarIceCube will use a compact broadband infrared (IR) instrument (BIRCHES) to investigate the origin of volatile...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... capability to emerge by the early 2020s. The most likely leader in this space should be SpaceX but certainly SLS and other deep space rockets could service this demand as well. In conclusion, there is little doubt that...
