16 January 2024
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...
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...
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...
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...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...provides accurate communications transmission/reception from Earth. The vehicle would nominally launch as a co-manifested payload on the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) to a lunar distant retrograde orbit, a stable lunar orbit where the service module...
