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...
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...
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 ...
