02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
New details about the testing of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket seem to further erode the likelihood of the agency’s launching its Artemis 1 mission this year. Following an initial report 31 August by Ars Technica of recent delays in ...
18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
... excitement and anticipation at NASA’s KSC press site in Florida this week as the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B in preparation for a final test before its Artemis I Moon mission. I was...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
... combined output of 32,000 kN will provide over 75% of SLS' total thrust at liftoff and burn approximately six tons of propellant...ATK's vice president and general manager of propulsion systems Charlie Precourt said that the sequencer, ”responsible for...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
...this year. “We’re assembling the rocket at this very minute down at the Kennedy Space Center,” Nelson said. “That rocket is the Space Launch System (SLS). It will launch our Orion spacecraft and cargo missions to lunar orbit and beyond.” “Beyond” may...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... within one year of announcing an up to 19-month delay for the three programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems—NASA senior leaders acknowledged the revised date of June 2020 is unlikely,” says...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... up the Gateway have to be delivered somehow and NASA's delayed development of its new heavy-lift rocket the Space Launch System (SLS) could have an impact on realising these goals on time. Even if commercial companies were contracted to pick up the...
