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...
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...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... of Ukraine through high resolution satellite imagery. NASA’s new Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), was rolled out in March to Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center prior to its first test flight. Ordinary people are now seeing satellite...
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...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
... shield design will save money and cut production time by about two months. Orion is planned for launch on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the end of 2018. “The heat shield we put to the test during Orion’s flight test...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... can have a hefty carbon footprint often due to the burning of solid rocket fuels, as on the US Space Shuttle and upcoming Space Launch System (SLS). The engines of the SpaceX Falcon F9 (pictured) use RP-1 and liquid oxygen, whereas the cleanest are...
