Constellation engineers are carrying out an evaluation process into a potential option of going back to the SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) on the Ares V first stage, which in turn would allow a return to a five segment Solid Rocket Boosters on the giant vehicle.
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The Ares V core stage team is currently evaluating a configuration change to the location…
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The mammoth Ares V is continuing to grow – on paper at least – to…
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A new optimized form of the huge Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle (CaLV) has been…
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Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) engineers are close to completing a two month-long series of…
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As the Cygnus S.S. Laurel Clark spends its first days berthed to the ISS, the…
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The final flight of the Antares 230+ launch vehicle, marking the end of the career…
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China has been very agile in developing its super-heavy lift vehicle Chang Zheng 9 (CZ-9).…
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Northrop Grumman launched the NG-16 Cygnus cargo vehicle, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka, to the International…
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Once the troublesome element of the Constellation (now Artemis) Program, three Orion spacecraft are in…
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The NASA and Jacobs engineers staffing the Integration Console will be literally and figuratively in…
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Boeing/StarlinerCommercialISSSNC/Dream ChaserSpaceX
From Shuttle Sadness to Dragon Delight – USA prepares to regain domestic crew launch capability
by Chris BerginThe gap in US domestic crew launch capability is coming to an end as soon…
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CommercialMars
More than Flags and Footprints – Spare Mars Rover robotic arm to fly to the Moon
by Chris BerginMaxar Technologies has signed a contract with NASA to deliver a robotic arm called Sample…
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Artemis
Examining NASA’s challenge to SLS as ‘Moon, soon’ becomes the latest bold goal
by Chris BerginVice President Mike Pence has instructed NASA to land Americans on the Moon within the…
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As NASA refocuses – once again – on returning to the Lunar surface, the agency…
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Following a highly successful Return To Flight of their newly upgraded Antares 230 series rocket…
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Citing exceptional and beyond performance expectations on the Return To Flight mission of their Antares…
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NASA managers have placed a “stop work order” in relation to the human-rating of the…
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As NASA continues to mature a mission and support architecture path toward its much heralded endeavor…
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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is continuing to make relatively good progress during its development…