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 ...
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 10 can...
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...
10 January 2023
Artemis I - Return to the Moon
... to return to the Moon with the Constellation programme and its Ares launch vehicles. We get a feel for the politics involved in the transition to the Space Launch System (SLS) and the various capsules on offer from government and NewSpace alike...
