November 2021
Space launch emergency response
... the partner organisation is essential. Certainly, during the initial stages of spaceport development, the relative low number of space launches means that the cost of an emergency service may seem quite high, although it will of course be amortised...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, fired its four RS-25 engines for 8 minutes and 19 seconds Thursday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay... help fly, track, and steer the rocket during launch and flight. Prior tests in the Green Run test ...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
NASA conducted a hot fire Saturday of the core stage for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The hot fire is the final test of the Green Run series...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... horizon (electric cars, electrified rail, etc), the jet airliner has none. This criticism is also levelled at space launches, as aircraft and rockets have no obvious alternatives. The 1980s of my teens saw a leap in technology with microelectronics...
30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
... suits that are being developed for astronauts in Orion. Once completed, Orion will launch on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). Although rumours suggest that the SLS could be scrapped in the wake...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... its latest venture in human exploration: development of the Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission had...the time, and still not fully defined, the Space Launch System was projected to cost $9.7 billion through its ...
