Aerojet Rocketdyne has shipped eight auxiliary engines, which will regulate the Orion spacecraft’s trajectory, for NASA’s second Artemis mission. Read more
Northrop Grumman has delivered the inert abort motor of the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system, which is designed to ensure the safety of the spacecraft’s crew, to NASA’s Kennedy Space C... Read more
Michigan-based tooling manufacturer Futuramic has delivered a stabilization tool that will help NASA accelerate construction of the Space Launch System rocket that will carry the space agenc... Read more
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has said the company aims to support U.S. national security efforts and help reduce the country's dependence on Russian-built eng... Read more
NASA is seeking industry feedback concerning the development of a payload separation system that will be part of the space agency’s Space Launch System. Read more
Boeing and NASA revised the final assembly strategy for the Space Launch System core stage ahead of the uncrewed lunar test flight called Exploration Mission-1, NASASpaceflight reported Mond... Read more
Sixteen Aerojet Rocketdyne-built engines and flight controllers have passed acceptance trials to fly on four planned NASA flights of the Space Launch System. Read more
Boeing and NASA moved one step closer to the maiden flight of the Space Launch System rocket after the agency-company team completed majority of outfitting efforts for the rocket's core... Read more
A Northrop Grumman official told NASASpaceflight in an interview published Monday the company sees “a lot of synergies” between the Common Booster Segments for the OmegA rocket and the solid... Read more
Aerojet Rocketdyne has received its remaining order of RS-25 engine flight controllers for the first four flights of the Space Launch System from Honeywell. Aerojet said Wednesday it now has... Read more
Charles Precourt, vice president and general manager of propulsion at Northrop Grumman, has said contractors need to consider affordability, survivability and sustainability as they work on... Read more
NASA has directed Boeing to identify approaches to increase the performance and payload capacity of a key structure for the Space Launch System, Space News reported Friday. The company will... Read more
Lockheed Martin’s space business has begun to consider the possibility of providing companies and researchers a chance to fly experiments aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Denver Business... Read more
Jacobs Engineering Group has transported to a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida a 380-foot-tall mobile launcher designed to support NASA’s Exploration Mission-1. The company said... Read more
Lockheed’s Orion Launch Abort System With Northrop-Built Booster Completes Second Flight Test
Lockheed Martin and NASA demonstrated the capability of the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system through the Ascent Abort-2 test conducted Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Fl... Read more