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NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket Passes Key Review for Artemis I Mission
NASA has completed the design certification review for the Space Launch System Program rocket ahead of the Artemis I mission to send the Orion spacecraft to the Moon. The review examined all the SLS systems, all test data, inspection reports, and analyses that support verification, to ensure every aspect of the rocket is technically mature and meets the requirements for SLS’s first flight on Artemis I.
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All Artemis I Secondary Payloads Installed in Rocket’s Orion Stage Adapter
Technicians have loaded the last of 10 CubeSats into the Space Launch System rocket’s 5-foot-tall Orion stage adapter at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After the Orion spacecraft separates from the SLS rocket for a precise trajectory toward the Moon, the shoebox-sized payloads are released from the Orion stage adapter to conduct their own science and technology missions.
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Working Overtime: NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Completes Mission
For more than two years, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been pushing the timekeeping frontiers in space. On Sept. 18, 2021, its mission came to a successful end. Geared toward improving spacecraft navigation, the technology demonstration operated far longer than planned and broke the stability record for atomic clocks in space.
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NASA Announces 60 Teams for 2022 Student Launch Competition
NASA has announced the 60 teams from 22 states and Puerto Rico selected to compete in the 2022 Student Launch– one of seven Artemis Student Challenges. The nine-month challenge provides a realistic experience for middle school, high school, and college students to follow the engineering design process NASA and industry engineers use when developing and operating new hardware.
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Teams Selected for NASA’s 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge
On Nov. 7, NASA announced the U.S. and international teams that will compete in the 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The event encourages students to build upon Apollo missions while using the goals of the Artemis program to pilot human-powered rovers over a challenging half-mile course simulating the terrain of the Moon, Mars, and other rocky bodies in the solar system.
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