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The US Congress gave the American space agency until mid-January 2011 to come up with a new design for the Space Launch System (SLS), the next-generation heavy-lift rocket. NASA failed to do so, and Administrator Charles Bolden took the heat for it yesterday. He was called to testify in front of the US House Committe... |
13 July 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Even if theoretically this should not happen, a Senate bill gives NASA precise instructions on how it should construct its next generation of heavy-lift delivery systems.Experts with various panels and committees in the US Congress have taken a deep interest in the American space agency's future, ever since US P... |
26 August 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Under US President Barack Obama's new budget proposal, NASA is to spend the next five years searching for alternatives to the ARES V heavy-lift delivery system. The massive rocket was a part of the now-proposed-for-cancellation Project Constellation, but a review panel found it to be insufficiently advanced and ... |
13 May 2010
03:16 GMT |
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With the new budget proposal released by the Obama Administration on February 1, NASA's Project Constellation has been abandoned. Members of this new space program included the ARES I launch vehicle, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the Altair Lunar Lander, the Earth-Departure Stage (EDS), and the ARES V heav... |
8 February 2010
03:47 GMT |
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After being postponed a couple of weeks ago on account of a minor glitch on a secondary system, the first full-scale burn of DM-1, the motor that will power up ARES I's five-segment first stage, took place yesterday. The event, which was witnessed by many onlookers, took place at a Promontory, Utah-based facilit... |
11 September 2009
01:51 GMT |
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Having recently completed the first functional, full-scale prototype of the new DM-1 engine that will power up the ARES I delivery system, NASA and ATK Space Systems, a division of the Brigham City, Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, attempted a test firing on August 27th. They failed because of a minor glitch in a fuel... |
2 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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As we were reporting yesterday, NASA and ATK Space Systems, a division of the Brigham City, Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, attempted to test-fire the newly finished ARES I rocket motor for the first time. However, a minor glitch caused the test to be postponed until Tuesday, officials at the space agency and the con... |
28 August 2009
08:01 GMT |
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In spite of the recent controversies surrounding Project Constellation – NASA's new plan of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 – the American space agency is pushing ahead with its scheduled tests. The newly completed rocket will undergo its first, full-scale engine test today, at a facility ow... |
27 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA is proud to inform that it has successfully finished building the first fully functional rocket of its new ARES I series, known as ARES I-X. The spacecraft is part of the agency's Project Constellation, and is designed to become a replacement for the aging space shuttles, which are... |
15 August 2009
02:19 GMT |
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According to a new independent report, released by NASA just one day before the presidential investigation committee is scheduled to present its own conclusions to Barack Obama, the American space agency has a chance to save between $3 and $6 billion if it renounces its Ares I rocket, a part of Project Constellation.... |
13 August 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The ARES delivery systems I, IV and V are all part of NASA's Project Constellation, which was designed as a replacement for the Shuttle Program. With the current fleet scheduled to be withdrawn from active duty by the end of 2010, the pressure is high on the space agency to come up with the new spacecraft as soo... |
23 July 2009
04:06 GMT |
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NASA recently announced that it finished renovating an old, Apollo-era building it had at its Florida Spaceport, following a $55 million investment in the new infrastructure. The new Operations and Checkout Building stands as a symbol that, even if the American space agency will renounce its fleet of shuttles in 2010... |
29 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Visiting and even settling on the Moon has been a long-standing dream among humans, but one of the main challenges that obstruct this objective is the difficulty of building structures on the natural satellite of the Earth. Oxygen supplies would never be enough for the long time constructing a building takes, not eve... |
23 January 2009
02:55 GMT |
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NASA's ambitious Ares V program – a project that envisions the construction of a massive orbital two-stage delivery system capable of carrying approximately 396,000 pounds (180,000 kg) into orbit – is now scheduled to be used for far more than simply delivering Altair lunar landers above the Earth, a... |
22 January 2009
02:01 GMT |
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The next generation of rockets that are currently being designed by NASA, to launch vehicles into space during future manned lunar and Martian missions, are looking kind of shaky. Literally! They shake so violently in the launch process that the rocket will probably disintegrate long before getting into the Earth�... |
22 January 2008
02:32 GMT |
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