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Boeing plans changes to SLS upper stages
I've read on the interwebs that employees officially were told that it's a 100 days pause, but unofficially the project has been paused for at least a year.
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- https://spacenews.com/boeing-plans-changes-to-sls-upper-stages/
BREMEN, Germany — With NASA’s decision to continue using an interim upper stage for additional flights of the Space Launch System, Boeing is working on changes to both that stage and a more powerful upper stage.
In an Oct. 3 call with reporters, John Shannon, vice president and program manager for the Space Launch System at Boeing, said NASA has asked Boeing to look at changes to the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) to improve its performance.
Those changes were prompted by the decision NASA made earlier this year to delay the introduction of the EUS. That stage was originally planned to enter use with the second SLS mission, Exploration Mission (EM) 2. Instead, the first flight of what’s known as the Block 1B configuration of SLS has been delayed to the fourth SLS launch, likely no earlier than 2024.
“That has put a slow down on the Exploration Upper Stage work,” he said. “We were rapidly approaching the critical design review.”
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I've read on the interwebs that employees officially were told that it's a 100 days pause, but unofficially the project has been paused for at least a year.
Source:
- https://spacenews.com/boeing-plans-changes-to-sls-upper-stages/