Tag: Space Launch System

  • New name for Space Launch System gets backing of lawmakers

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    Artist’s concept of NASA’s Space Launch System. Credit: NASA/MSFC A push to give NASA’s Space Launch System a new name is garnering support from lawmakers, who have written into legislation provisions that would order NASA to rename the heavy-lift rocket through a competition among schoolchildren. If passed into law, the bill would set policy for…

  • NASA adding to list of CubeSats flying on first SLS mission

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    Artist’s concept of the Lunar Flashlight CubeSat at the moon. Credit: NASA With room for 11 small shoebox-sized CubeSats on the first test flight of NASA’s behemoth Space Launch System, agency officials have turned to scientists, industry and students to fill the slots in time for launch in 2018. NASA has selected three CubeSats developed…

  • NASA kicks off SLS engine testing in Mississippi

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    The RS-25 engine fires up for a 500-second test Jan. 9 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Credit: NASA A powerful space shuttle-era rocket engine ignited for more than eight minutes on a test stand in Mississippi last week, kicking off hotfire testing for NASA’s Space Launch System mega-rocket after contamination…