13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...the whole launch system for human spaceflight, including the Falcon 9 rocket and associated ground systems, on Tuesday... to develop, test, and fly the first commercial human spaceflight system in history to be certified by NASA,” said SpaceX boss Elon...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
...Master Control Facility (MCF) will upgrade the ground systems to meet the future requirements including that ...up to support & facilitate the launching of private space transportation systems in the country. Last year, the Indian government announced ...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
...elements such as Orion, the Space Launch System (SLS) and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), but that around $50.5 billion ... put together a big budget necessary to achieve that Human Landing System. We asked for $3.3 billion, and Congress funded it to ...
18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
... year, SLS will undergo a wet dress rehearsal to verify systems and practice countdown procedures for the first launch. “From this.... Before the test, SLS, Orion, and the associated ground systems will undergo checkouts at the pad. After the rehearsal,...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... his special report, Sylvester Kaczmarek dissects the complex web of risks associated with AI-driven spacecraft and ground systems, from adversarial attacks and data poisoning to the possibility of hostile control. His analysis underscores the urgent...
10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
... doing is one of the great undertakings of humanity - the scope of it from SLS to Orion to Gateway, human landing systems, ground systems, communications, spacesuits and more - its staggering. First at the Moon, and then at Mars,” says NASA Deputy...
