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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
