Friday, June 28, 2019

SLS Update: Four New Deliveries Arrive in New Orleans for the Artemis 1 Core Stage Booster...

At NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, engineers tend to the four RS-25 engines that will fly on the Space Launch System during the Artemis 1 mission.
Aerojet Rocketdyne

Artemis 1 Engines Delivered to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (News Release)

Crews delivered the last of four RS-25 engines for Artemis 1, the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, from NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Thursday, June 27, 2019. The engines, located at the bottom of the rocket’s massive core stage, are fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

When Artemis 1 launches to the Moon, the four RS-25 engines will fire nonstop for 8.5 minutes, providing the rocket 2 million of its 8.8 million pounds of maximum thrust at liftoff. Technicians from NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the lead contractor for the engines, at Michoud will now prepare the four engines for installation to the rest of the core stage later this summer.

NASA is working to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. SLS is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration, along with Orion and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts and supplies to the Moon on a single mission.

Source: NASA.Gov

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An artist's concept of the Space Launch System, with its four RS-25 engines firing underneath the core stage, lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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