Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...

To make a 2028 launch date for this mission, NASA said it needs to have the ML-2 tower completed by November 2026. Both NASA and the new report agree that there is a zero percent chance of this ...

NASA's problems with the mobile launch tower that will support a larger version of its Space Launch System rocket are getting worse rather than better. According to a new report from NASA's inspector ...

During a press briefing on Friday, Sarafin admitted that the mobile launch tower did incur some damage as a result of the launch, which produced temperatures in excess of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

The SLS and its mobile launch platform emerge from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center March 17. ... including some that hit lightning protection towers surrounding the pad.

An upgraded mobile launch tower for the SLS has also been plagued by cost overruns and schedule slippage. Notably, an element that isn't contributing to delays is the SLS , which performed very ...

The new booster is is scheduled to launch on the ninth Artemis lunar mission in the 2030s — but there's a chance that it will ...

The Artemis I rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B ahead of sunrise on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 ahead awaiting its first launch attempt on Aug. 29. The Artemis I rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B ahead of ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off on November 16, 2022, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 25.5-day journey to the Moon and back.The launch of the Artemis program’s first ...

Mobile launcher 1, carried by the crawler-transporter 2, rolls out from its park site location to Launch Pad 39-B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 16, 2023.

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...