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SpaceNews.com • Amadi Brians Chinonso

Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program

Political pressure to accelerate Artemis timelines is increasing the risk of schedule slips, cost growth and technical trade‑offs across NASA’s lunar programme. Shortened decision windows and architecture changes are straining contractors, compressing launch margins for SLS/Orion and complicating plans for a crewed lunar landing target.

2026-03-11T06:27:22.735834-07:00
China   Hypersonic   Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation   Space Exploration & Science Missions   Space Defense & Militarization  
Universe Today • Mark Thompson

China's Space Programme Prepares for Its Busiest Year Yet

By Universe Today: China has just laid out one of its most ambitious spaceflight schedules yet and the details reveal a programme that is accelerating. Two crewed missions, a cargo resupply flight, a year long solo endurance experiment, and the first ever space station flight by astronauts from Hong Kong or Macao are all on the cards for 2026.

Also: douglasmmessier.substack.com
2026-03-11T03:38:46.974388-07:00