NASA has released a Request For Information for a new engine the agency will use on the Orion European Service Module beginning with EM-6 (Exploration Mission 6). The Request For Information states that the engine is needed by mid-2024 in order to support the EM-6 flight of the Space Launch System, which under the currently in effect budget and operational timeline for NASA will be No Earlier Than 2027.
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While NASA engages spacecraft industry help in studying concepts for design, development, test, and evaluation…
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With the Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1) launch date now officially set for the end of…
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NASA has completed an important three day Technical Interchange Meeting regarding the agency’s upcoming flagship…
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As US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), one of the…
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After years without concrete missions beyond the current EM-2 test flight, NASA has finally unveiled…
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In 2016, our understanding of our cosmic home might have taken its most significant leap…
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The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has issued a “Justification for Other Than Full and…
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NASA’s key advisory body has warned the agency that schedule pressure, in combination with cost…
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As NASA and its contracted partner agencies press forward toward the debut launch of the…
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As NASA continues to mature a mission and support architecture path toward its much heralded endeavor…
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The Space Launch System (SLS) management have set the milestones and dates for the upcoming…
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The proposed mission to send two astronauts to a captured asteroid near the Moon won’t occur until…
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NASA is moving up a gear with its manifest planning for the Space Launch System…
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The stars are aligning for the December 4 debut mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, following…
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Years in the planning, and NASA’s first step toward returning humans to deep space exploration,…
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Following internal conversations regarding the upper stage design for the forthcoming second flight of the…
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With SLS on track to make its debut launch in December 2017 from Launch Complex…
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Leaders of several major space industry companies have claimed that the unrivalled capability of the…
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As expected, the Space Launch System (SLS) successfully passed the major milestone of the Preliminary…