January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... Near Earth Asteroid Scout. NEA Scout will fly on the first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in mid-2018 and deploy from it after the Orion crew capsule is separated from the upper stage...
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...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... goal of a crewed mission to Mars. In an early use of NASA’s next-generation human spaceflight vehicles, Orion and Space Launch System (SLS), our astronauts will travel to the redirected asteroid in the lunar DRO about 71,000 km above the surface...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... is the shift of interest between the Moon, asteroid exploration and Mars, and the effect of this on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). Former President George W Bush introduced a plan to create a new booster to return the US to the Moon and then...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... leap for CubeSats Following MarCO, there are 13 CubeSats slated for EM1, NASA’s inaugural flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) in 2019 or 2020. These missions will be led by the United States, Japan and Italy. Several of the missions...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
...Joe Biden. Four astronauts are headed up to the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend in the first newly certified ...President Mike Pence. Their plan would have launched the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket this year, sending an uncrewed...
