NASA's next moon rocket is coming together at the agency's Kennedy Space Center, as the SLS core stage gets its solid rocket ...
New heat shields will be manufactured for Artemis III to allow gases to permeate the material. “The Artemis campaign is the most daring, technically challenging, collaborative, international ...
NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft has gone through a critical step in its preparation for launch. Three spacecraft adapter ...
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NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four ...
Orion’s heat shield had suffered unexpected damage during the Artemis I reentry, missing fist-size chunks of its protective coating, and it took months to find a fix. Now NASA is pushing to ...
Nasa has also been investigating "why char layer pieces from its spacecraft's heat shield were lost during the Artemis I mission", said ABC News. "We are returning to the Moon in a way we never ...
Pic: NASA/Marie Reed Worse still for the Artemis programme, there is a problem with the Orion capsule. Cracks in its heat shield that emerged after the Artemis I test flight have led to a two-year ...
The missions had been slated to launch in 2025 and 2026, but unexpected damage to Orion's heat shield during Artemis 1 prompted NASA to delay both by more than a year.