Space Launch System (SLS) managers are now planning for the utilization of two Mobile Launchers (MLs), allowing for additional use of the rocket on both crewed and cargo-only missions. The first major cargo-only flight is being focused on the Europa Clipper mission now set to ride on a Block 1 SLS, a variant which may now fly four times – instead of just once – before the more-powerful Block 1B variant is ready and launched off the new ML-2 in the middle of the 2020s.
NASA’s monster rocket will evolve into an even larger vehicle early in her lifetime, as…
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has issued a “Justification for Other Than Full and…
NASA managers have placed a “stop work order” in relation to the human-rating of the…
NASA is requesting industry proposals for a Universal Stage Adaptor (USA) that will provide options…
NASA officials have admitted the interim Upper Stage for the Space Launch System is at…
The powerful Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) has taken another step forward, following NASA’s request to…
Space Launch System (SLS) managers are continuing to look at potential – and as yet…
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…