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Space Launch System. The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory. The first SLS launch was the uncrewed Artemis 1, which took place on 16 ...
The NASA Launch Services Program ( LSP) is responsible for procurement of launch services for NASA uncrewed missions and oversight of launch integration and launch preparation activity, providing added quality and mission assurance to meet program objectives. [1] LSP operates under the NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD).
A launch service provider is a type of company that uses launch vehicles and related services provided by a Launch Agency, including furnishing the launch vehicles, launch support, equipment and facilities, for the purpose of launching satellites into orbits or deep space. [1] There are over 100 launch companies from all over the world. [2]
It is the prime contractor for key components of the space agency’s giant Space Launch System moon rocket. But the Starliner part of the Boeing portfolio could go by the boards.
When you add up all the NSSL2 contracts awarded over the 2022 to 2027 period, the amounts of work awarded to ULA and SpaceX come out much closer to equal: $4.5 billion for ULA, and $4 billion to ...
Deep Space Transport LLC is a joint venture that is set to provide launch services for the Space Launch System rocket. The joint venture consists of Boeing, the prime contractor for the Space Launch System core stage and the Exploration Upper Stage that will be used on Space Launch System missions, and Northrop Grumman, the prime contractor for the Space Launch System's solid rocket boosters.
ABL Space Systems was founded in 2017 by Harry O'Hanley and Dan Piemont, former SpaceX and Morgan Stanley employees. Their RS-1 rocket has two stages. It offers a maximum capacity of 1,350 kg (2,980 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO). [2] In 2018, ABL Space Systems signed a lease with Camden County, Georgia, for future operations in Spaceport Camden. [3]
ValveTech, a contractor that supplies Nasa with valve components for the rocket that lifts the Starliner aircraft, warned against the imminent launch on May 17.