...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, ...
... 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...
... Near Earth Asteroid Scout. NEA Scout will fly on the first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in mid-2018 and deploy from it after the Orion crew capsule is separated from the upper...
... is the shift of interest between the Moon, asteroid exploration and Mars, and the effect of this on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Former President George W Bush introduced a plan to create a new booster to return the US to the Moon and...
... leap for CubeSats Following MarCO, there are 13 CubeSats slated for EM1, NASA’s inaugural flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) in 2019 or 2020. These missions will be led by the United States, Japan and Italy. Several of the...
... completed in 2014. EM-1 is Orion’s next test flight scheduled for 2019. The EM-1 launch will be the first use of the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest rocket launched since Saturn V carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon. During EM-1, Orion will...