26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... as a critical element to power an American spacecraft. The Orion spacecraft, along with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will carry it all into space, is NASA’s flagship programme to propel human exploration to the Moon and beyond. The...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
..., such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the 2020s and the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket Congress instructed NASA to build in 2011 will be first in line to see the Exit...
25 March 2020
China to launch experimental deep-space spacecraft in April
... this week. The experimental spacecraft is currently being tested at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's island province of Hainan and will launch without a crew onboard in mid to late April, Xinhua news agency reported...
05 February 2018
Launch fever grips Florida as SpaceX prepares for game-changer mission
... Heavy will be the most powerful in the world, which means it could launch heavier and more complex cargo to space. Once operational, SpaceX could start launching big national security satellites, large orbital habitats and telescopes, or even...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... depletion, as planned) before this point. Although most insurance loss events happen either at launch or during the first year of a spacecraft’s life, space weather events can complicate this trend. As shown in Figure 3, by measuring the insurance...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... using technology available at the time and considers its potential for the future. The space community still relies on expendable launch systems that are essentially civil missiles. Indeed, one of the most successful current launchers...
