Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed by an audible gasp. The company later confirmed a problem occurred late in ...

A Virginia-based propulsion-focused company conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and ...

Orbital ATK’s QM-2 solid rocket booster test, as recorded by a traditional video camera (top) and by NASA’s High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) camera (bottom).

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

NASA Tests Space Launch System Rocket Booster for Artemis Missions. ... NASA notes that SLS is currently the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the moon in a single mission.

Five decades after the final flight of NASA's legendary Saturn 5 moon rocket, the U.S. space agency is poised to launch its most powerful rocket for a critical, long-overdue test flight, sending ...

NASA sets tentative launch date for Artemis I moon mission 05:10. NASA's $4.1 billion Space Launch System moon rocket was hauled out of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building Tuesday at the Kennedy ...

🛤 The 10 booster motor segments that will form the @NASA_SLS rocket’s twin, five-segment solid rocket boosters for the @NASAArtemis II mission, arrived at @NASAKennedy on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.

(The SLS rocket is expendable, so it is intended to be launched only a single time.) According to the agency, the original hot fire test completed 15 of its 23 objectives.

The second in a doubleheader launch, a SpaceX rocket took off on a record-breaking flight at 2:28 a.m. July 2.