25 February 2018
Into the Black
...Thirty-five years after the first launch of the Space Shuttle in April 1981, it must be hard to ... involves the issue of thermal tile delamination and the concern that this first Shuttle would burn up on re-entry. ‘To save Columbia’, states the book’s ...
15 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... of twenty-first-century generations”. As a museum employee, the author is well in tune with the bitter-sweet concept of ‘Space Shuttle as museum exhibit’ and those who have seen one on display will sympathise. Visitors experience at close quarters...
29 August 2022
Engine problem leads to scrub of SLS Artemis 1 mission
... they are bled (brought up to operating temperature) pre-launch is different for SLS compared to the Shuttle. The RS-25 powered the Space Shuttle for over three decades and completed 135 missions. It is one of the most tested large rocket...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... development from safety or operations are simply not on the same time scale. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) berthed to Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997 for servicing and upgrading. The telescope only became fully operational after an initial...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... support the SLS pursuit of safety, with a record of 100 percent mission success over 135 Space Shuttle flights. At the end of the Space Shuttle programme, 16 RS-25 flight engines and two development engines were transferred to the SLS programme and...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... over $800 million in revenue for Intelsat. Now, more than twenty years later, we are without the Space Shuttle and despite significant advances in robotic satellite servicing technology, we are currently unable to perform any on-orbit servicing...
