With booster casting operations for SLS’s EM-1 mission well underway at Orbital ATK’s manufacturing facility in Utah, the company is looking ahead in terms of how the boosters’ flight data will be transmitted to ground stations during flight. Moreso, the company is looking beyond EM-1 to the build operations for the EM-2 flight boosters as well as how their SRBs remain competitive with Blue Origin’s New Glenn and SpaceX’s ITS super heavy lift rockets.
Following the highly successful test firing of the Qualification Motor 2 (QM-2) at their proving…
A year after discovering small voids between the solid propellant and the outer casing of the aft…
One year to the day since Atlantis launched on her final mission, the exceptional performance by…
A critical step in the process of clearing STS-135/Atlantis and her systems for flight has…
Following the highly successful launch of the STS-133 mission, NASA and its contractors have reviewed the…
Preparations for Atlantis’ honor of rounding off the 30 year long Space Shuttle program are…
With just over two weeks to launch, engineers will disassemble the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate…
The Agency Flight Readiness Review (FRR) has concluded by approving November 1 as the launch…
With STS-135 heading into mission planning for a June 28, 2011 flight – pending the…
Currently the next mission scheduled to fly, Discovery’s processing for STS-133 is continuing minus her…
As the countdown begins for STS-132, mission managers are continuing to review the status of…
With Discovery’s payload now installed into the orbiter’s Payload Bay, all eyes are on Friday’s…
With just under one week to go before the opening launch attempt for Space Shuttle…
With Endeavour enjoying a smooth flow on Pad 39A, preparations for Discovery’s STS-131 mission in…
Hypergolic loading of the STS-130 stack has suffered a slight delay due to unacceptable temperatures…
Capping off a highly successful year for the Space Shuttle Program, the STS-129 flight of…
Randy Bresnik and Robert Satcher have compelted the third and final EVA of STS-129’s mission,…
Discovery has returned to her home port of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on top…
With STS-128 and Discovery officially cleared by the SOMD (Space Operations Mission Directorate) FRR for…