A year after discovering small voids between the solid propellant and the outer casing of the aft segment of a test motor for the massive 5-segment SRBs for NASA’s upcoming Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, ATK is making firm progress in their investigation and the mitigating factors toward correcting the issue ahead of the Qualification Motor -1 (QM-1) firing.
Two satellites came close to colliding in orbit Wednesday, highlighting the potential hazard posed by…
Experts from ATK and NASA are investigating the cause of voids in the aft segment…
ATK will use two “mid-span” supports on their upcoming static test of their five segment…
With a deep heritage between the Shuttle’s External Tank and the Space Launch System (SLS)…
NASA’s Human Architecture Team (HAT) is actively working on a roadmap towards evolvable demonstrations of Propellant…
Endeavour’s highly advanced payload arrived at Pad 39A on Monday evening, as STS-134 continues to…
A collaboration between experts at numerous NASA centers and commercial companies have created a plan…
The Space Shuttle Program (SSP) Flight Readiness Review (FRR) heads into a two day meeting…
NASA managers have decided to manifest shuttle orbiter Atlantis with missions through to 2010, cancelling…
Ten years ago, on 8 July 2011, two, four-segment Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) came to…
With approximately three years to go before the inaugural flight of the Space Launch System rocket, NASA…
As work progresses around the country toward the debut of NASA’s SLS rocket in 2018, Orbital…
Orbital ATK engineers have concluded a thorough examination of the Qualification Motor -1 (QM-1) following…
Orbital ATK’s Qualification Motor -1 (QM-1) test has conducted a key firing on Wednesday, on…
Chinese commercial launch provider LandSpace achieved a major milestone with the successful maiden flight of…
Following Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket firing its seven BE-4 engines on the first stage…
SpaceX has kicked off a significant demolition and upgrade phase at its Starbase facility, targeting…
Impulse Space, the innovative startup founded by SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller, has unveiled plans for…
Just over two weeks after the CRS-33 cargo delivery to the International Space Station, another…
