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.
While NASA engages spacecraft industry help in studying concepts for design, development, test, and evaluation…
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NASA has completed an important three day Technical Interchange Meeting regarding the agency’s upcoming flagship…
As US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), one of the…
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The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has issued a “Justification for Other Than Full and…
NASA’s key advisory body has warned the agency that schedule pressure, in combination with cost…
As NASA and its contracted partner agencies press forward toward the debut launch of the…
As NASA continues to mature a mission and support architecture path toward its much heralded endeavor…
The Space Launch System (SLS) management have set the milestones and dates for the upcoming…
The proposed mission to send two astronauts to a captured asteroid near the Moon won’t occur until…
NASA is moving up a gear with its manifest planning for the Space Launch System…
The stars are aligning for the December 4 debut mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, following…
Years in the planning, and NASA’s first step toward returning humans to deep space exploration,…
Following internal conversations regarding the upper stage design for the forthcoming second flight of the…
With SLS on track to make its debut launch in December 2017 from Launch Complex…
Leaders of several major space industry companies have claimed that the unrivalled capability of the…
As expected, the Space Launch System (SLS) successfully passed the major milestone of the Preliminary…