Following Artemis 3, NASA will move to a different launch tower, ML-2, that will support the launches of SLS Block 1B and its Exploration Upper Stage that replaces the ICPS. A second Mobile ...

An upgraded mobile launch tower for the SLS has also been plagued by cost overruns and schedule slippage. Nasa says the SLS is "the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and cargo directly ...

platform and umbilical tower in late March. Construction of a new Mobile Launcher frees the first ML from a three-year long downtime for teardown and reassembly after the first SLS launch of ...

The mobile launcher they're being stacked on is a 115m (380ft) -tall structure that's used to process and assemble the SLS before moving it to the launch pad. It's a huge symbolic step ...

Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous ...

Lead contractor Bechtel National Inc. on Friday completed the lift and placement of the first of seven modular steel blocks that will eventually grow the tower ... SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft and ...

American engineers had no insight into that, but decided that they needed their own mobile launch system ... of the VAB and took the gantry tower off the launch platform and installed it on ...

Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity and high atmospheric ...

Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous ...

Nor is it taking into account the massive amount of damage that NASA’s SLS rocket does to the launch pad, something we saw just last month when the first Artemis mission launched. Adding all of ...