March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... 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...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... 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...
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...
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...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... logistical challenges due to the constraints of space travel, particularly payload weight and volume limitations. Today’s launch vehicles have strict payload limits. For example, the Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX Starship, two of the...
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...
