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The 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Canberra site in Australia. It is the only antenna that that communicate with Voyager 2 from the southern hemisphere, and will be undergoing crucial upgrades for 11 months beginning in March. Photo Credit: NASA/Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex With so many space missions currently exploring […] 
Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry NASA is full steam ahead with the Space Launch System, as years […] 
Integrated Lunar Lander at Shackleton Crater. Image: NASA We are returning to the Moon by 2024, declared Vice-President Mike Pence in a March 26th announcement and the program, NASA Administrator Bridenstine announced on May 13th will be called Project Artemis. But, unlike previous efforts to return to the Moon that required years of development […] 
Artemis 1 Core Stage. Photo: Jim Hillhouse / AmericaSpace.com NASA’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine is passionate, very passionate, about getting people exploring space again. That comes through clearly when he speaks, whether about Artemis’ goal of landing on the Moon by 2024 or the Orion and Space Launch System (SLS) programs that will blaze a trail […] 
Orion in lunar orbit. Image: Lockheed Martin This is the first of what AmericaSpace.com hopes are many updates of the Artemis system on a regular basis to bring you, our readers, up to speed on progress of the primary components of the Artemis system, the Orion spacecraft and SLS launcher. This […] |
 Next Launch AEHF-6 on a Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 26 Mar 20 at 20:18 GMT 26 Mar 20 at 4:18pm Eastern 
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