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...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... impacts of climate change. Predictions are equally uncertain for launch complex 39B, the future home of NASA’s SLS rocket which will be used to launch the first people to the Moon by 2024. The current annual flood...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
... ready to meet it,” Bridenstine replied. Despite recent advances in Artemis’s progress, NASA is conducting “Green Run” tests of the SLS core stage and contracts have been awarded to there teams to look at the development of a Human Landing System...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... with US Vice President Mike Pence. Their plan would have launched the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket this year, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back on a mission that came...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... also uses liquid oxygen as an oxidiser in its RS-25 main engines that power its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. ISRO’s research and development Inertial System’s Unit (IISU) has been asked to scale up its capabilities...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
... about $35 billion of that cost has already been spent on elements such as Orion, the Space Launch System (SLS) and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), but that around $50.5 billion will need to be budgeted over the next...
