January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... capability, enabling mission profiles that are currently impossible to become possible. Conceived and designed for exploration of deep space, the primary purpose of SLS is to enable NASA’s journey to Mars and propel humans beyond low Earth orbit...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... Harris Corporation has announced it will provide the crucial audio communication system for NASA’s first human deep-space exploration mission, scheduled to launch in 2022 onboard the Orion spacecraft. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
..., and is actively developing collaborative programmes related to deep space exploration missions. EAC is Neutral Buoyancy Facility hall... transition from ISS exploitation towards future deep space human exploration programmes and operational scenarios....
25 March 2020
China to launch experimental deep-space spacecraft in April
...craft will be used in both low-Earth orbit and for deep-space exploration, it will need to withstand the challenges that interplanetary... sequences and undocking with China's orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab, the robotic cargo ship plunged into Earth...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
...for the commercial sector beyond Earth orbit with affordable deep space missions. We are at the very beginning of ... stakeholders, and a successful lunar economy will lead to further deep space exploration. The time when we land the first person on ...
02 October 2019
First look at China's new spacecraft capable of deep-space travel
... to show China’s new-generation crewed craft, that would allow astronauts to travel to the Moon and other deep-space destinations. Looking a lot like the crew and service module from NASA’s Orion spacecraft which the...