In a full 500 second test firing, the J-2X engine – a key part of the evolved Space Launch System (SLS) – has been put through its paces at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (SSC). Up to three of the powerful engines will power the Upper Stage of the Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle (HLV), in configurations which includes sending humans and cargo to Mars.
Teams at the main NASA centers are continuing to build up their involvement in the…
The Space Launch System (SLS) is undergoing final refinements – known as trades – on…
The Voyager spacecraft – NASA’s longest operational interplanetary probes – are about to enter their 34th…
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) have created an expansive plan to utilize the Atlas and…
NASA have awarded the lucrative Ares I Upper Stage contract to a team led by…
Following the announcement of Boeing’s team that will compete for the Ares I Upper Stage…
NASA Constellation have decided to increase the propellant capacity of the Ares I Upper Stage…
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) managers have given an overview of their integral role…
Today, at the 2005 Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, NASA Chief…
Boeing is expected to spend 2.8 billion dollars on NASA’s brand-new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS),…
Mobile Launcher 2 (ML-2), the launch tower and platform to be used by the Block…
The SLS program continues with preparations for the first human spaceflight to the Moon’s vicinity…
NASA’s Space Launch System, the other Saturn V-class heavy lift vehicle launched this decade, is…
NASA and its advisory bodies remain concerned about the low flight rate planned for its…
ESA and Airbus, in coordination with NASA, hosted an Artemis II media event at the…
The first crewed Artemis mission is now the focus of NASA’s beyond-Earth orbit human spaceflight…
NASASpaceflight interviewed two speakers and subject matter experts about Orion, the European Service Module (ESM),…
The NASA-developed flight software for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle successfully flew the…
United Launch Alliance (ULA), the prime contractor for the Space Launch System’s (SLS’s) Interim Cryogenic…
