23 October 2017
Space race ramps up between Blue Origin and SpaceX
...further $40.8 million to the company under its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. The Air Force had already agreed an ...an upper stage on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles. The Raptor prototype is powered by densified liquid methane...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... mission planned for 2020. Paragon Space Development Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, 1 project, $1.6 million “Cryogenic Encapsulating Launch Shroud and Insulated Upper Stage (CELSIUS)” CELSIUS is a system that can be installed on the surface of the...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... an American spacecraft. The Orion spacecraft, along with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will carry it all into space... the Moon and beyond. The spacecraft, which consists of a launch abort system, a crew module and a service module, will ...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
...delayed development of its new heavy-lift rocket the Space Launch System (SLS) could have an impact on realising these...) therefore need to be developed and completed in order to launch a human mission to orbit Mars. Furthermore, the schedule developed...
06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
... safety say Boeing. “Using the lift capability of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B, we have developed a ‘Fewest Steps ... complete, the agency’s behemoth super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle will be the most powerful rocket that NASA has...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... leadership. Key to providing the heavy-lift capability to carry out the Moon to Mars Program is the Space Launch System (SLS), and the Exploration Upper Stage, or EUS. While other aspects of the Artemis mission might...
