Advancing Progress on SLS Avionics

From left, Wayne Arrington, a Boeing Company technician, and Steve Presti, a mechanical technician at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., install Developmental Flight Instrumentation Data Acquisition Units in Marshall’s Systems Integration and...

LVAC: Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls

Can a rocket maneuver like an airplane? And can an airplane act as a surrogate for a maneuvering rocket? NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F/A-18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for...

NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars

A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in November 2010 and May 2013 reveal the formation of a new gully channel on a crater-wall slope in the southern highlands of Mars....

Orion Boosters Build Anticipation

NASA hopes to launch an Orion crew capsule into space for the first time before the end of this year — two or three months later than previously planned. Once targeted for September or October, the mission called Exploration Flight Test-1, or EFT-1, is now shooting...

Engineers Continue Pushing Orion Parachute System to Its Limits

The parachute system designed for NASA’s Orion spacecraft passed another hurdle on Feb. 26, in a test that put extra stress on its drogue parachutes and simulated a failure of one of its three main parachutes. Engineers dropped a dart-shaped test vehicle that...