Steven B. Seipel
Artemis III Liquid Oxygen Tank Lifted to Mate to Intertank (Photo Release)
The liquid oxygen tank for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage for the Artemis III mission is lifted into a production cell at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on November 7. Move crews use an overhead crane system to lift the tank from the mobile transporter, which carried it from another area of the factory and set it atop the previously-loaded intertank. Once the liquid oxygen tank is mated to the intertank, teams will mate the stage’s forward skirt atop the tank to complete the forward join.
The propellant tank is one of five major elements that make up the 212-foot-tall rocket stage. The core stage, along with its four RS-25 engines, produce more than two million pounds of thrust to help launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft, astronauts and supplies beyond Earth’s orbit and to the lunar surface for Artemis.
Source: NASA.Gov
****
Steven B. Seipel
No comments:
Post a Comment