Working through almost all of the standard fortnight year-end holiday, Boeing’s final assembly team for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage completed work on their first rocket with Core Stage-1 leaving the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) factory early on the morning of January 8.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne overviews RS-25 installation success ahead of MAF rollout milestone
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NASA and prime contractor Boeing are working to finish assembly and checkout of the first…
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After a little under three months without a mission from Florida’s launch pads, SpaceX launched…
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After a three-month halt in orbital launches for SpaceX, the company has begun making a…
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Solar Orbiter is ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) first medium class mission with strong partnership from…
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NASA SLS Core Stage shipping and handling practice moves from Stennis to KSC
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Artemis
Boeing reorganizing plans as it builds second NASA SLS Core Stage engine section
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Boeing’s new plans to finish the first assembly of a NASA Space Launch System (SLS)…
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Artemis
Boeing completes first NASA SLS engine section, getting ready for final Core Stage mate
by Philip SlossOfficials from NASA along with prime contractor Boeing formally signed off on the first assembly…
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At mid-year prime contractor Boeing was progressing through structural assembly of the second NASA Space…
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SpaceX is busy on all fronts, from its bread and butter commercial satellite launches to…
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Just a few days from the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11, the mission that landed…
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Artemis
Shuttle veteran RS-25 engines ready for SLS Core Stage installation ahead of Artemis-1
by Philip SlossThe four RS-25 engines for the first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) have…
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After years of payload preparation, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched one of the company’s most-challenging…
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SpaceX deployed Canada’s Radarsat Constellation via a Falcon 9 launch Wednesday. Lifting off from California’s…
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NASA is looking at deferring some programmatic certification activities until after the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1)…
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NASA is officially still deciding whether or not to take the time to conduct the…
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NASA and prime contractor Boeing have reworked the final assembly plan for the first Space…
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has conducted its second flight on Thursday, carrying its first customer…