Multiple Heavy-Lift Rockets Inch Toward Initial Launches In 2023
On the heels of Orion’s return to Earth, NASA has begun testing Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines to power the Space Launch System on Artemis missions.
Credit: NASA
The takeoff of heavy-lift launchers is a multiyear waiting game, but 2022 finally provided a payoff with the Nov. 16 launch of the Space Launch System to debut NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to orbit the Moon. The milestone represented the start of a new set of first flights of heavy launch systems from...
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