18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... important step forward to ensure that the core stage of the SLS rocket is ready for the Artemis I mission, and to carry ... the Space Launch System team” said John Honeycutt, the SLS program manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...science, astronauts sitting atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) might ask themselves if the greatest risk to ... one of the biggest issues affecting astronauts launching on NASA’s SLS on future voyages to the Moon and Mars. www.libertybiosecurity....
29 January 2021
NASA is looking at commercial options to launch its Europa Clipper
... NASA’s huge, but problematic Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket. However, development on the SLS is behind schedule and when it is finally ready... costs, says the report. A launch using the SLS would have an advantage in that the Europa Clipper ...
25 October 2021
NASA is targeting Feb 2022 for first Artemis launch
... week completed stacking the huge 98 metre-tall (322-foot) SLS/Orion system at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Completing... conduct a series of integrated tests of Orion and SLS’s communications and data links before the rocket and spacecraft...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
...mission might be facing cut-backs or redundancy, both the SLS and EUS featured heavily in the bill despite many reports ... to surge this year as the company gets ready for the SLS’s inaugural flight in 2021. Interestingly, the new bill also directs...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...mission. Today, progress is being made on Space Launch System (SLS), a new rocket that will be more powerful than the ...propulsion system that has been built by the European Space Agency. SLS and Orion will then be used to test new systems, including...
