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...
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...
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...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... capsule - might have benefited from a better sense of scale and smaller size. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B in November 2022. Lessons learned The NASA of the 2020s is clearly intent...
