While the political side of the Space Launch System (SLS) continues to be bogged down by delays and arguments, the engineering side of the vehicle is picking up, most notably on the core stage. With Boeing’s “Pathfinder” tank completed ahead of schedule, External Tank tooling is being unwrapped for checks, ironically as ET operations officially ended at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF).
Engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans are using a pathfinder RS-25…
A full-scale model of a Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage, called the Core Stage…
Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies Company, is helping install four of its RS-25 liquid-propellant rocket…
The Core Stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy…
The law of averages caught up to the New Orleans area and the two NASA…
The Green Run test campaign for the first NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage…
The first NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage arrived at the Stennis Space Center…
As NASA showed off the first assembled Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage to government…
In a major milestone for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), all four RS-25 engines –…
NASA and its contractors recently completed a dress rehearsal of shipping the first Space Launch…
At mid-year prime contractor Boeing was progressing through structural assembly of the second NASA Space…
One of the main elements of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage that makes…
NASA is looking at deferring some programmatic certification activities until after the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1)…
Activation of the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for the “Green…
Just prior to expiration of U.S. federal government funding for NASA on December 21, the…
A traffic jam of NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage hardware that needs to…
Prime contractor Boeing recently completed Thermal Protection System (TPS) applications on the liquid oxygen (LOX)…
NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and prime test and operations contractor Jacobs are busy practicing…
After a week and a half long river trip on Pegasus, the second of four…
