@NASA has provided an update on what went wrong (and right) during last Saturday’s Hot Fire Test of SLS Core Stage. […]
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Illustration depicting the flow of the solar wind from the Sun. Both GLIDE and Solar Cruiser will help scientists study the solar wind and its effects on communications is space and on Earth. Image Credit: NASA NASA has announced the selection of two new SmallSat missions – the Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic […] 
@NASA completes a significant sub-scale test of solvent & nozzle materials for the @NorthropGrumman Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). Two of these boosters will power @NASA_SLS off the pad in late 2021. […] 
Another critical component for NASA’s SLS heavylift rocket arrived in Florida on Wednesday, for launch on the Artemis-1 mission late next year. […] 
The Orion Structural Test Article (STA) undergoes a critical jettison test of panels surrounding the service module last month at Lockheed Martin’s facility near Denver, Colo. Photo Credit: NASA Last week’s completion of parallel structural testing campaigns for Orion and the Space Launch System (SLS) is a critical step towards the maiden voyage of […] 
An artist’s concept showing the Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System E-Sail with its tethers fully deployed. The HERTS concept is currently undergoing testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, as part of the space agency’s NIAC Phase II program. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC One of the least studied and understood parts of the Solar […] 
It’s been one year since the successful Orion Exploration Flight Test-1, and in the time since NASA and Lockheed Martin have learned quite a bit about how their capsule flies in space and have begun applying those lessons to the actual spacecraft that will fly beyond the moon in 2018 on the first […] 
New high-resolution image of Pluto from New Horizons, showing jumbled blocks in the water-ice crust, which border the smooth nitrogen-ice plains. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The New Horizons mission has already sent back phenomenal images and data from Pluto, but it keeps getting better. New images released today are the first in a series […] 
Slide from the DPS meeting showing possible ice volcanoes on Pluto. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Pluto is a small, cold world, but it is also turning out to be one of the most fascinating places in our Solar System – as reported today at the American Astronomical […] 
New Horizons has completed the four course corrections needed to send it on its way to its next target in the Kuiper Belt, 2014 MU69. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI After having completed a wildly successful flyby of Pluto and its moons, the New Horizons spacecraft was given a new target, much farther out in […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-17 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 4 Mar 21 at 8:34 GMT 4 Mar 21 at 3:34am Eastern 
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