20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... reported this week that it has finished assembling the main structural components for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage - the largest rocket stage the agency has built since the Saturn V that ...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... NASA’s objectives for the Mars proving ground in cis-lunar space and to build up the Mars Base Camp system. EM-1 includes a full system test of Orion and the Space Launch System (SLS) during a cis-lunar multiple week exploratory mission, certifying...
02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... to 5,800 km beyond low-Earth orbit. An Orion launch on the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will occur in 2017. The SLS has Boeing as its main contractor, with a Launch Abort System provided by Orbital Sciences in the US. Europe has hopes...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
.... The Exploration portion of the budget (which includes most of the Artemis program) will see the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS), receive $2,585.9 million, of which $300 million is for the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS); Orion gets $1,406...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... continued investments in technology today. Innovation, investment and understanding A 5 per cent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
... said about $35 billion of that cost has already been spent on elements such as Orion, the Space Launch System (SLS) and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), but that around $50.5 billion will need to be budgeted over the next five years to facilitate...
