10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... human exploration of the Red Planet. NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, exploration ground systems, and Orion spacecraft, along with the human landing system, next-generation spacesuits, Gateway lunar space station, and future rovers are NASA...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... can have a hefty carbon footprint often due to the burning of solid rocket fuels, as on the US Space Shuttle and upcoming Space Launch System (SLS). The engines of the SpaceX Falcon F9 (pictured) use RP-1 and liquid oxygen, whereas the cleanest...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... continued investments in technology today. Innovation, investment and understanding A 5 per cent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep...
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...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...operations, a heavy-launch vehicle, crew capsule, a deep-space transit vehicle with high-efficiency in-space propulsion and power...long duration habitation modules which include life-support systems, radiation safety, protection from the environment, ...
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...
