A recent assessment of the completion date for the first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage now puts it at the end of May, 2019, close to the middle of next year. The date indicates that production and assembly schedules are still sliding and is reducing confidence in meeting the June, 2020 date that was at the late end of NASA’s schedule forecast for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) launch.
Space Launch System (SLS) managers are now planning for the utilization of two Mobile Launchers…
Top NASA human exploration administrators briefed the Human Exploration Operations (HEO) committee of the NASA…
NASA and Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage prime contractor Boeing are making progress building…
The RS-25 test team conducted their first hot-fire test of the year in the A-1…
NASA and prime contractor Boeing are deep into the application of spray-on foam insulation (SOFI)…
Engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans are using a pathfinder RS-25…
The RS-25 test team at Stennis Space Center hot-fired an untested flight engine on the…
A little more than two weeks after the last test, the RS-25 test team acceptance…
The RS-25 engine team has conducted the latest engine controller unit (ECU) hot-fire acceptance test…
NASA is ramping up production of hardware and flight elements for the Space Launch System…
NASA and Boeing are ramping up their preparations to begin full-scale production of the first…
Europe’s latest space freighter, the Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4), is currently undergoing preparations for a…
International Space Station (ISS) program managers, flight controllers, and engineers are currently hard at work…
One of the key pre-launch requirements for SpaceX’s upcoming Dragon mission to the ISS –…
The DragonEye (DE) relative navigation sensor – set to ride with Discovery on STS-133 –…
When STS-129 launches next week, Atlantis will have one eye on the future, as she…
STS-127 has been scrubbed for the second time due to another leak at the Ground Umbilical…
With Space Shuttle Endeavour now well into her OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility) flow for her…