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...
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...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...We need to unite and take bigger steps. NASA's Space Launch System in its Block 1 crew vehicle configuration that will send... a successful mission. Today, progress is being made on Space Launch System (SLS), a new rocket that will be more powerful ...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... of Ukraine through high resolution satellite imagery. NASA’s new Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), was rolled out in March to Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center prior to its first test flight. Ordinary people are now seeing...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... income will provide the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and smaller size...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... it only supports the rocket vehicle’s landing mass. From an operational perspective, air-launch offers the only realistic way to operate a space launch system from existing airfields, including the possibility of someday operating out of major civil...
