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...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... first SLS mission, Artemis 1. The agency’s huge 101 metre-tall Space Launch System has endured numerous delays over the years but is now targeting possible launch windows between 12-27 March and 8-23 April for its inaugural flight...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... 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...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... 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...
