state Mississippi testing state Mississippi

NASA to fire up moon rocket during ‘Green Run’ do-over this week

Reading now: 366
www.clickorlando.com

NASA is preparing to perform another test fire of the Space Launch System rocket in Mississippi Thursday after a previous attempt did not last as long as planned.

The eight-minute hot fire, known as the “green run” test of the SLS core stage is the last step before the hardware can be sent down to Kennedy Space Center to launch the Orion spacecraft on the first flight known as the Artemis-1 mission.

The SLS core stage booster, built by Boeing, contains the liquid hydrogen tank and liquid oxygen tank, along with four RS-25 engines as well as the computers that serve as the “brains” of the rocket.

The core stage was slated to fire its four engines on the test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Jan. 16 for eight minutes but

Read more on clickorlando.com
The website covid-19.rehab is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA