August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...‘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...
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...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
..., or possibly as early as 2026. The rocket’s 70 tonne payload to low Earth orbit (LEO) is less than either NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket or SpaceX’s Starship, and only a little more than the Falcon Heavy’s 63.8 tonnes. Long March...
