11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... track only some of the costs of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. They later masked the troubled programme’s ...(issued 10 March) titled “NASA’s Management of Space Launch System Program Costs and Contracts.” Doug Loverro, associate administrator ...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
NASA has awarded a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, to manufacture 18 additional Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engines to support Artemis missions to the Moon. The follow-on contract to produce 18 engines is valued ...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
NASA conducted a hot fire Saturday of the core stage for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The hot fire is the final test of the Green Run series. ...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... NASA leadership. Key to providing the heavy-lift capability to carry out the Moon to Mars Program is the Space Launch System (SLS), and the Exploration Upper Stage, or EUS. While other aspects of the Artemis mission might be facing cut...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
.... NASA will rely on its own Orion crew capsule and heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket – that currently is still under development – to loft astronauts into space. The landing vehicle, which all vary widely in design, then carry...
15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
... The spacecraft’s first mission will be Artemis 1; an uncrewed flight to test the integration of the spaceship with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. During Artemis 1, Orion will travel thousands of kilometres beyond the Moon, farther than any...
