... the main Orion vehicle. It will use a Space Shuttle OMS engine and other thrusters, allowing the Orion to manoeuvre during... km beyond low-Earth orbit. An Orion launch on the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will occur in 2017. The SLS has ...
...astronauts to the ISS until at least 2019. NASA’s own Space Shuttle program ended in 2012. No one was quick enough to fill... deal between NASA and Roscosmos shows how innovation in the space industry must be carefully paced, especially when it comes to...
...engine in the company’s Demonstrator 3 rocket as it performs a suborbital space flight up to an altitude of 100 km above the New Mexico desert.... The engine was a strong contender for the Space Shuttle but due to schedule and budget constraints, the ...
...flight data,” said Steve Lindsey, vice president of SNC’s Space Exploration Systems business unit. “This gives us high confidence... sound barrier was broken 70 years ago and where the Space Shuttle program began 40 years ago. With that historic legacy,...