03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
... company has also been won a booster production and operations contract by NASA valued up to $3.19 billion to support the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket through 2031. The award includes follow-on production and flight sets for Artemis IV through...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... support from within NASA, if not from those parts of NASA most directly interested in the Orion-SLS (Space Launch System) programme. What he is clearly trying to do is to start a snowball effect to which a variety of entities from both the private...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... that provides accurate communications transmission/reception from Earth. The vehicle would nominally launch as a co-manifested payload on the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) to a lunar distant retrograde orbit, a stable lunar orbit where the service...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
..., as well as others from India and Russia. The debuts of several new launch vehicles are planned for 2021, including Ariane 6 and the Space Launch System (SLS). And many activities in low Earth orbit will make 2021 memorable...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
.... NASA 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 to support the...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... first SLS mission, Artemis 1. The agency’s huge 101 metre-tall Space Launch System has endured numerous delays over the years but is now targeting possible launch windows between 12-27 March and 8-23 April for its inaugural flight...
