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...
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...
