NASA's Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion spacecraft aboard, made its debut Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It stands 322 feet high and weighs 5.75 million pounds. Read more about the 'moon rocket':
. What happened yesterday was in preparation for Artemis-1—a full “wet” dress rehearsal to verify systems and practice countdown procedures for the first launch.spotlights atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Friday, March 18, 2022, after being rollout out to the launch pad for the first time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The two-day test includes loading and unloading 700,000 gallons of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the rocket’s tanks and going through a full launch countdown. There will be a deliberate halt to the countdown at about 10 seconds to practice a “scrub” or canceled launch and drain the propellants from the rocket.e Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen through the windows of Firing Room One in the Rocco A.
During Artemis-1 the SLS will launch, orbit the Earth, and then send Orion and the ESM to enter an elliptical orbit of the Moon. It will get to within 62 miles above the lunar surface and then about 40,000 miles beyond it. Three weeks later the Orion spacecraft will splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego.rollout to Launch Pad 39B from the Vehicle Assembly Building, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 17, 2022.
Exactly when Artemis-1 can launch depends on where the Moon is, the eclipses it causes in space that the solar-powered Orion will have to fly through, and timing it right so it splashes down in the right location.launcher as it rolls out to Launch Complex 39B for the first time, Thursday, March 17, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA will review data from the rehearsal before setting a specific target launch date for the Artemis I launch, but we do know that Orion and SLS will roll to the launch pad for a final time about a week before launch. The launch windows are:Follow me on
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