Mobile launcher 1 sustained some damage from the megarocket's inaugural blastoff in November 2022.
the SLS launch, journalists were not allowed to take photos of Launch Complex 39B as NASA tried to keep the damage under wraps. The space agency later revealed that the launch tower suffered some scorch marks, a number of pad cameras got burned, and some nitrogen and helium supply lines were slightly damaged following the launch.As the space agency prepares to send a crew on board the Orion capsule for Artemis 2, its engineers are hard at work to ensure the launch pad is good to go.
In anticipation of the rocket’s next launch, NASA teams are refurbishing the blast plates that surround mobile launcher 1's flame hole, protecting it against the exhaust plume produced by the rocket’s engines, the space agency wrote, in addition to “modifying the panels on the flame deflector to account for turbulent exhaust flows.
and travel down to emergency transportation vehicles at the base of the launch pad, according to NASA. The emergency baskets will be installed on the mobile launcher later this year ahead of planned tests. Engineering teams are also testing a crew access arm—NASA is also finishing up the construction of an additional 1.4-million-gallon liquid hydrogen sphere that will be used to load propellant for the rocket. The launch pad is already equipped with one sphere, but the space agency now wants to have two spheres to reduce the time it takes to prepare for another launch attempt.
As part of the test, the four astronauts will don their orange spacesuits inside the crew quarters before heading towards the launch pad in the all-electric crew transportation vehicles.The Artemis 2 crew is set to go on a trip around the Moon and back. Although this crew will not land on the lunar surface, the four astronauts will instead travel to the far side of the Moon at a distance of about 230,000 miles away from Earth.
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