The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

The first static test of the most powerful rocket ... lb.-thrust engine was constructed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. to prove the feasibility of very large, solid-propellant boosters.

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

Common propellant combinations include liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (used in the Space Shuttle main engines), or solid propellants (used in some rocket boosters). Advanced propulsion ...

"Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked solid rocket boosters for the mission at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC ... quarters of SLS's total thrust at liftoff.

The most recent addition is the sixth of the 10 motor segments in the Artemis II Space Launch ... foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters provide more than 75% of the total SLS thrust during liftoff ...

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 ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced ... converted from the Space Shuttle Program, and the two boosters provide 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.