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Nasa's huge next-generation rocket is undergoing tests ahead of its maiden flight in 2021.

NASA EGS, Jacobs preparing SLS Core Stage for Artemis 1 stacking May 6, 2021 The Core Stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and was moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 29. The stage is now in the hands of KSC’s Exploration Ground System (EGS) program and prime test operations and support contractor (TOSC) Jacobs. The long-awaited milestone allows EGS and Jacobs to work towards putting the whole Orion/SLS vehicle...

Ten month schedule to ready SLS for Artemis 1 launch after Core Stage arrives at KSC May 3, 2021 NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program is looking at a wide range of forecasts for when they can complete testing necessary to be ready to launch Artemis 1. The Core Stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center and was moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 29 to prep for stacking with the new launch vehicle’s Solid Rocke...

American Aerospace Forty years ago today, the Space Shuttle Columbia successfully returned from its first earth-orbital mission.  An estimated 225,000 people witnessed the historic landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Known officially as the Space Transportation System (STS), the Space Shuttle was unlike any manned space vehicle ever flown. A giant aircraft known as the Orbiter was side-mounted on a huge liquid-propellant stage called the External Tank ...

40 years ago, the first space shuttle mission blasted off By FOX 13 News Staff Published  STS-1 pilot reflects on the shuttle’s legacy Bob Crippen, who flew the first space shuttle mission in 1981, says it will be a long time before we see another spacecraft as magnificent as the shuttle. Video via NASA. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It’s now been 40 years since the maiden flight of space shuttle Columbia, the first flight of a reusable spacecraft and the inaugural mission of the 30-year space sh...

Second prevalve issue delays completion of SLS Core Stage Green Run campaign February 26, 2021 A problem with another one of the eight prevalves in the Artemis 1 Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has postponed a second test-firing to wrap up the Green Run campaign. The SLS Program’s first flight article has been installed in the B-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi since January 2020. After a liquid hydrogen prevalve was repaired in November, all ...

United Launch Alliance Modifies Launch Pad and Facilities in Advance of First Vulcan Centaur Launch This Year Team Test Drives New Launch Platform from Processing Facility to Pad News provided by Share this article Share this article CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- United Launch Alliance (ULA) has modified Space Launch Complex-41 and the processing facilities in support of Vulcan Centaurs inaugural launch later this year. The multi-year project to prepare...

NASA SLS Core Stage aborts high-stakes Green Run static fire January 16, 2021 NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program and Core Stage prime contractor Boeing were ready for the big moment of the rocket’s Green Run campaign and the biggest moment in the 10-year old program, a static firing of the stage. After a year of test cases at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, visits from hurricanes, and waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, an eight-minute long, flight-duration Hot-Fire test was plan...

Japan Aerospace ready to launch H3 rocket this year ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 14:26 IST Tokyo [Japan], January 12 (ANI): Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Tuesday announced to launch its new flagship rocket H3 for paving the way for next-generation transportation technologies. "Building on the 98.1 per cent success of the H-IIA/B launch vehicle series, Japan is ready to launch this year its new flagship rocket #H3. JAXA (@JAXA_en) & partners ar...

December 23, 2020 NASA partially completed the Green Run Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) test of the Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage on the second attempt in the B-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center. The test was again conducted in secrecy on 20 December, and the test team was able to fill the rocket stage with its liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) propellants for the first time ever; however, a crucial, 10-minute long terminal countdown was aborted inside of the 5 minute mark ...