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Live updates from the July 29 launch of the SpaceX Starlink 10-29 mission from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
But a team from Boeing, the prime contractor on the Space Launch System (SLS), believes their new launch platform will be capable of getting a large balloon into orbit, along with its necessary ...
The SLS, NASA’s ambitious but outdated rocket, is a relic of past programs. Why does it exist in a world dominated by ...
That’s where the Space Launch System, or SLS, comes in. The SLS is NASA’s big bet on deep space travel, and the colossal launch vehicle will give NASA the power to send manned missions back to ...
Here’s how it works. The launch of the Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket as seen from the press site at Kennedy Space Center. (Image credit: Josh Dinner) ...
NASA's Space Launch System rocket, reflected in the turn basin at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rolls out for a fourth attempt at a wet dress rehearsal on June 6, 2022. Credit: Trevor Mahlmann ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is rolled up the ramp at Launch Pad 39B, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at NASA’s ...
NASA’s Space Launch System has been under development for decades. Here are the stories to read as the rocket makes its big debut: carrying the Orion capsule to space as part of the Artemis 1 ...
After years of preparation and two false starts, NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System has finally taken off and entered orbit. It’s a big win for the space agency — even as it assigns to ...
The Space Launch System, or SLS, has spent most of the last year tucked away in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, a massive warehouse structure at KSC used to house and integrate giant rockets ...
The Space Launch System was conceived in an era when new commercial rocket companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX were just emerging. Those companies have transformed how NASA sends cargo, astronauts ...
An artist's conception of the Space Launch System at Cape Kennedy. NASA NASA on Thursday completed the eighth and final “green run” test of the core stage for the biggest rocket ever built ...