21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
...billion deficit needed in order to get SLS off the ground, means that the earliest Artemis-1 will be ready is...three programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems—NASA senior leaders acknowledged ...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
.../high coverage space communications hardware can be shared between multiple software applications, each customised to a specific ground system element. The growth of this market will only increase with the development of applications such as the...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... over workflows and equipment. Lockheed Martin delivered the Orion vehicle for Artemis 1 to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems personnel in January. NASA most recently transported the vehicle from KSC’s Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... had spread to SLS’s sister programmes: the Orion crew capsule (a holdover from Constellation)and Exploration Ground Systems (a conglomeration of launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center). The date looked so unlikely, considering the “magnitude...
02 August 2020
Crew Dragon are on their way home
...’s final test flight and is providing data on the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew Dragon spacecraft and ground systems, as well as in-orbit, docking, splashdown and recovery operations. The test flight also is helping NASA certify SpaceX...
05 June 2019
UK government backs ambitious space plans
... has now demonstrated every major assembly of our LauncherOne system and are within arm’s reach of bringing to the...ESA ) will collaborate closely on science, space and ground systems technology with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
