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...
28 May 2021
US GAO report casts doubt on 2024 lunar landing
... revealed just one participant – SpaceX – had been selected due to insufficient funding from Congress and its SLS launch vehicle has been plagued with finance issues. NASA also faces criticism in the GAO report...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... of that is for the Space Launch System ($148.9 million) and the Exploration Ground Systems associated with SLS and Orion ($100 million); the framework needed if the agency is continue its efforts to eventually land the...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... and NASA’s new administrator under President Joe Biden, has said Artemis 1 will launch on the first SLS later this year. Meanwhile, parts of the Artemis 3 vehicle have already started to come together. Whereas Artemis...
