In a high-stakes race, South and North Korea are vying for success in launching their first homegrown military spy satellites, backed respectively by the United States and Russia, as a […]
Space Launch Systems (SLS)
UPDATE: Success as SpaceX’s 22 Starlinks soar turning the early morning sky pink
UPDATE: On Friday, August 11 at 1:17 a.m. ET, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 22 of the second-generation “V2” mini satellites, that are larger and have four times the bandwidth of […]
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s initial RS-25 certification campaign of 12 hot-fire tests completed
Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA recently completed a certification test series for the new RS-25 production engines that will propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) exploration rocket for Artemis missions, starting […]
Aerojet Rocketdyne completes and and delivers four major engines to power the Artemis III
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed the four RS-25 engines that will power the core stage of NASA’s super heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the historic Artemis III mission. Slated for […]
Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 RangeHawk supports NASA’s Artemis Mission
Northrop Grumman has announced that the Northrop Grumman Corporation’s RQ-4 RangeHawk supported the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the recent Artemis I mission. RangeHawk is […]
UPDATE 6: NASA’s Artemis I mission draws to a successful close
NASA’s Artemis I mission came to a successful conclusion on December 11th with the splashdown and recovery of the Orion spacecraft — this mission was an uncrewed, integrated flight test […]
NASA commits to future Artemis Moon rocket production with Boeing
NASA and Space Launch System (SLS) stages prime contractor Boeing are in various states of production on core stages for future Artemis missions — together with its twin solid rocket […]
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s SLS propulsion systems successfully debut in Artemis I mission
Aerojet Rocketdyne played a central role in “enabling humanity’s next giant leap” with the successful launch of NASA’s super-heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) exploration rocket. The company provided critical […]
Renesas’ Intersil rad-hardened ICs by the hundreds are onboard NASA’s Artemis I mission
Hundreds of Renesas Electronics‘ radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs), including more than 50 different part numbers, are onboard the Artemis 1 launch that launched on November 16. Intersil-brand, rad-hard ICs […]
UPDATE 4: Another delay for Artemis due to fuel leakage
UPDATE 4 Another delay, September 3, has prevented the Artemis launch. However all was bright as earlier this Saturday morning the NASA launch director called a “go” for propellant loading, […]