Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems continues production of solid rocket booster (SRB) segments for the first launches of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at their Promontory Propulsion Systems facility in Northern Utah. Mixing of solid propellant for the SLS boosters and casting it in each of the ten segments for the second flight set is nearing completion as technicians put the final touches on the set for the first launch.
With booster casting operations for SLS’s EM-1 mission well underway at Orbital ATK’s manufacturing facility…
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…