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Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi hoist the Space Launch System core stage out of the B-2 test stand April 19 after a hot fire test March 18. Credit: NASA
Teams at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi removed the core of NASA’s first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket from a test stand earlier this week for loading onto a barge to carry it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the rocket stage is due to arrive by the end of the month to start final preparations for a test flight around the Moon.
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The twin solid rocket boosters for the Artemis 1 mission are stacked on the SLS Mobile Launcher inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
The twin 177-foot-tall (54-meter) solid-fueled boosters for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System have been stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center to await arrival of the rocket’s cryogenic core stage, which is set for a second engine test on a firing stand in Mississippi later this month.
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An exhaust plume erupts from the B-2 test stand during a test-firing of the Space Launch System core stage Jan. 16. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
NASA officials said Tuesday the weekend test-firing of the Space Launch System moon rocket’s core stage was cut short by an out-of-limits parameter in a hydraulic system for gimbaling, or vectoring, one of its engines.
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The Space Launch System’s four RS-25 engines fire during an abbreviated Green Run test Saturday. Credit: NASA
A critical test-firing of NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket in Mississippi ended just 67 seconds after it began Saturday, well short of a planned eight-minute burn that was supposed to clear the way for the space agency to finally ship the rocket’s core stage to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations.
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In this Jan. 12 photo, the lower two segments of each Space Launch System solid rocket booster are seen stacked on the SLS Mobile Launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
NASA ground crews at the Kennedy Space Center are continuing to stack segments of the Space Launch System’s side-mounted solid rocket boosters on a mobile launch platform inside the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building.