NASA has successfully launched its next-generation SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on a test flight to the moon, ushering in a new era of space exploration. Packing 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch, the world’s most powerful operational rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center ...
Unlike previous human launch systems, SLS is designed to grow and evolve over time. The vehicle includes multiple launch configurations that will carry cargo and crew into the darkness of space. The SLS system's flexibility enables engineers to utilize one design today but adapt to future missions...
aWe will complete development of next-generation space systems like the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to take us past low Earth orbit, and set a pathway to Mars and beyond. 我们将完成下一代空间系统的发展象空间发射系统 (SLS) 和Orion多用途乘员组车采取我们...
NASA is planning an uncrewed launch of Orion, which is designed to hold four astronauts, and the SLS in 2017. Orion will fly aboard an existing Delta-IV rocket in 2014 on a mission that will take it further than low-earth orbit. Dumbacher said that the remaining hurdles with Orion and ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Orion spacecraft, and the supporting ground system elements are all in excellent condition and in a configuration that supports the next opportunity. Listen to areplay of the latest briefing, and check back at this blog for an update on the targ...
With the need for ever-deeper understanding of the world and universe and more advanced missions, such as Artemis—the mission to the moon—and the Space Launch System (SLS) to take humans there, NASA needed additional computing capability. The NAS’ current facility is a six-megawatt building...
NASArolled SLS to the launchpadfor the first time last week. It is now undergoing final testing that will enable the space agency to confirm the Artemis I launch date. NASA’s new launch vehicle, dubbed the “mega moon rocket,” stands at 322 feet (98.1 meters) and is capable of creati...
NASA is currently gearing up to launch three NASA astronauts and a Canadian flyer on an SLS-Orion mission — Artemis 2 — late next year. But problems with the first Orion's heat shield and other issues threaten to push the Artemis 2 flight into 2026, years past initial expectations. ...
Issues like these pushed the debut date of SLS to 2022, inducing an eight-year gap between Orion's first and second test flights. Orion spacecraft and Artemis 1 A close-up view of NASA's Artemis 1 Space Launch System megarocket inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy ...
NASA is working on a next-generation launch system called Space Launch System, or SLS, hoping to create a transport system to take astronauts of the future to the Moon and beyond. Now NASA has announced its progress towards the first mission for the new