January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and smaller size. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B in November 2022. Lessons learned The NASA...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... volume limitations. Today’s launch vehicles have strict payload limits. For example, the Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX Starship, two of the largest proposed heavy-lift rockets, can carry payloads up to hundreds of tons...
April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
...articles by Mark Williamson on “Lego’s replica space programme” in Issue 24, Summer 2020, and “Lego tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis” in Issue 36, Spring 2025. About the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant and ...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
... and cut production time by about two months. Orion is planned for launch on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the end of 2018. “The heat shield we put to the test during Orion’s flight test last...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the 2020s and the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket Congress instructed NASA to build in 2011 will be first in line to see the Exit door, a trip...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft. The Orion spacecraft, along with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will carry it all into space, is NASA’s flagship programme to propel human exploration to the Moon...
