11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
...have judged to be a violation. Officials have disregarded NASA’s usual way of calculating schedule margins, making the predicted launch dates for SLS unreliable. Meanwhile, refurbishing engines from the Space Shuttle programme turned out to be harder...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
...it will take to send the rocket to space following launch. The team successfully completed the countdown and ignited the...pounds of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen – mirroring the launch countdown procedure – and igniting the engines. "Saturday’s ...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
... more than eight minutes, just like it will during every Artemis launch to the Moon. The longer duration hot fire tested a variety ...designed to help fly, track, and steer the rocket during launch and flight. Prior tests in the Green Run test series ...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
...in funds that supported the creation of approximately 2,175 American jobs, and $474.46 million in GDP. Contracts for launch and cargo services, as well as vehicle development, are also a significant investment in the private sector. The US Government...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
...believes the Earth observation and communications low orbit constellation market will require close to 1000 satellites to be launched, and potentially as many as 4000 over the next decade. Constellation satellites tend to be small (only a few hundred...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... hydrogen peroxide is that the launcher can be fuelled and ready to go at any time because it can be kept on the launch pad at ambient temperatures, without risking evaporating fuel, frozen valves or other low temperature damage. According to Levykin...
