While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...

Boeing was selected in 2012 to build SLS’s “core stage,” which is the hulking orange fuselage that houses most of the massive engines that give the rocket its first burst of power at liftoff.

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

NASA's Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The 156-foot-long five-segment solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust during the test.

The SLS rocket's two solid-fuel boosters consume 5.5 tons of propellant per second. The heat generated by the boosters during their two minutes of operation, if converted into electricity, would ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket meant to take humans back to the Moon, is facing yet another major setback—this time with Boeing at the center of the issue. With delays, budget ...

The mission will be launched on a Space Launch System rocket, ... NASA’s SLS rocket is now ready for its August 29 Moon launch. Phil Plait. Wed, August 17, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC.

As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans to the ...

NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon in over half a century, is on thin ice. According to Ars Technica senior space ...

The tentative first launch date for the SLS is November 2021. So, NASA just announced that it’s going to broadcast the static fire test of its new SLS rocket to the public.

So far NASA has flown the SLS once on the Artemis I mission in 2022. The four RS-25 engines powered the core stage that paired with two solid rocket boosters from Northrop Grumman, combined to ...