NASA launches SLS Rocket to launch pad in Florida 10 days before Artemis I launch
NASA delivered its largest rocket ever, the Space Launch System (SLS), to a launch pad in Florida on Friday and will try again 10 days from now to explode in a mission. Unfulfilled missions have delayed much Artemis I going to the Moon.
After two attempts to boot wash this summer because of technical problems, rocket Return to the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from Hurricane Ian.
The US space agency used the time to make minor repairs and recharge the batteries powering the systems on board. Missile Space Launch System (SLS).
The four-mile (six-kilometer) journey of the SLS rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39B of Kennedy Space Center took nearly nine hours, NASA speak.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is rolled slowly on a giant platform called a crawler transporter designed to minimize vibrations.
The next launch is scheduled for 12:07 a.m. Eastern Time (09:37 a.m. IST) on November 14 with a fallback date for November 16 at 1:04 a.m. ET (10:34 a.m. a.m. IST) and November 19 at 1:45 a.m. ET (11:15 a.m. IST).
“We feel comfortable launching at night,” said Jim Free, NASA associate administrator speak at a briefing on Thursday.
Free radar and infrared camera images are said to provide the data needed to track missile activity.
If the rocket explodes on November 16, the mission will last a little over 25 days with the crew bullet splashing into the Pacific Ocean on December 9.
Unexpected quest, named Artemis 1will bring the United States closer to returning astronauts Moon Five decades after man last walked on the surface of the Moon.
Artemis 1’s target, named after ‘s twin sister Apollois the test of the SLS rocket and the Orion crew capsule on top.
Sensor-equipped mannequins are on standby for the astronauts during the mission and will record acceleration, vibration and radiation levels.
The Orion capsule will orbit the Moon to see if the spacecraft will be safe for humans in the near future. At some point, Artemis aimed to put a woman and a person of color on the Moon for the first time.
And since humans have visited the Moon, Artemis has set his sights on another lofty goal: a crewed mission to Mars.
During the trip, Orion will follow an elliptical route around the Moon, arriving within 60 miles (100 km) at the closest approach and 40,000 miles at the furthest point – the deepest into space ever. far of a ship designed to carry people.