... challenging goal of a crewed mission to Mars. In an early use of NASA’s next-generation human spaceflight vehicles, Orion and Space Launch System (SLS), our astronauts will travel to the redirected asteroid in the lunar DRO about 71,000 km above the...
... the orbit of the ISS before returning to Earth after a successful mission. Today, rapid progress is being made on Space Launch System, a new rocket that will be more powerful than the Saturn V and will provide the heavy lifting...
...‘swarm’ of up to 13 cubesats, hitching a ride on the first flight of NASA’s new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), planned for 2018. LunarIceCube will use a compact broadband infrared (IR) instrument (BIRCHES) to investigate the origin...
... 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...