NASA managers have created new mandates for future exploration systems, as the Agency continues to refine a capability-driven approach to its exploration aspirations. Working in tandem with NASA’s latest conceptual Design Reference Missions (DRMs), the requirements detail the capabilities required of the Orion crew vehicle, Space Launch System (SLS) and Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO).
ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Program and France’s CNES space agency have test fired the Pressure Oscillation…
The RS-25 – the engine that enjoyed a hugely successful career with the Space Shuttle…
With less than a year to go before the inaugural flight of NASA’s Orion crew…
NASA’s Stennis Space Center is deep into preparations for numerous engine testing for the Space…
Following a 30 year career with the Space Shuttle Program, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s RS-25…
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is deep into preparations for the key milestone of the…
One of the most famous rocket engines in history – the Apollo/Saturn’s F-1 – could…
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA 905, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on…
With the Space Launch System (SLS) family heading towards the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase,…
Space Launch System (SLS) teams are over a month into their DAC-2 (Design Analysis Cycle),…
The NASA Advisory Council (NAC) – a body that provides the NASA Administrator with counsel…
Eight months after the conclusion of the final Space Shuttle mission, the iconic winged-vehicle’s successor…
The debut of the Space Launch System (SLS) will send the Orion (MPCV) on a…
This year will mark several major milestones for the development of the Space Launch System…
NASA’s 15 Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are being transported to the Stennis Space Center…
As the Space Launch System (SLS) teams head into their first full year since the…
In a potential marriage of the Space Launch System (SLS) with a central exploration plan,…
Based on a request from the US Air Force, a new Upper Stage engine –…
Teams at the main NASA centers are continuing to build up their involvement in the…
