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...
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...
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...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... 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...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... 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...
