21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
...initiative will run alongside the development and flight of the Space Launch Systems (SLS), Orion, and the agency’s plans to ...Orbital ATK of Dulles and a final version is targeted for launch in 2022. Further additions to the outpost such as habitation...
29 January 2021
NASA is looking at commercial options to launch its Europa Clipper
... previously mandated by law that Europa Clipper’s orbiter and a follow-up lander mission had to be launched on NASA’s huge, but problematic Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket. However, development on the SLS is behind schedule and when it is finally...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
.... However, despite efforts to change its flight path after its successful blast off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in China, the Long March 5 came crashing back down to Earth. The rocket was carrying Shijian...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... of Inspector General. NASA has been hard at work constructing the Orion spacecraft, its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground and launch facilities (Ground Systems Development and Operations or GSDO) needed to send astronauts to Mars...
23 November 2020
China's lunar sample return mission to launch tonight
... by relaying signals from the spacecraft during two critical phases. Scheduled to lift off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan, a 57-metre Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket, which was transported to a port in Wenchang by ships...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
...damning report has suggesting its Artemis-1 programme in which the Space Launch System (SLS) is due to fly an uncrewed Orion...an up to 19-month delay for the three programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ...
