All Four Engines Are Attached to the SLS Core Stage for Artemis I Mission
Hello reader!
Below is the news that was posted on (08/11) on the NASA website highlighting
that all four engines are already connected to the SLS basic stage for the
Artemis I mission.
Duda Falcão
MOON TO MARS
All Four Engines Are Attached to the SLS
Core Stage for
Artemis I Mission
Editor: Jennifer Harbaugh
Nov. 8, 2019
Last Updated: Nov. 8, 2019
Image Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon
All four RS-25 engines were structurally mated to the
core stage for NASA’s Space Launch
System (SLS) rocket for Artemis I, the first mission of SLS and NASA’s
Orion spacecraft. To complete assembly of the rocket stage, engineers and
technicians are now integrating the propulsion and electrical systems within
the structure. The completed core stage with all four RS-25 engines attached is
the largest rocket stage NASA has built since the Saturn V stages for the
Apollo Program that first sent Americans to the Moon. The stage, which includes
two huge propellant tanks, provides more than 2 million pounds of thrust to
send Artemis I to the Moon. Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Michoud
Assembly Facility in New Orleans attached the fourth RS-25 engine to the rocket
stage Nov. 6 just one day after structurally mating the third engine. The first
two
RS-25 engines were structurally mated to the stage in October. After
assembly is complete, crews will conduct an integrated functional test of
flight computers, avionics and electrical systems that run throughout the
212-foot-tall core stage in preparation for its completion later this year.
This testing is the first time all the flight avionics systems will be tested
together to ensure the systems communicate with each other and will perform
properly to control the rocket’s flight. Integration of the RS-25 engines to
the massive core stage is a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its
partners Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the
RS-25 engines lead contractor.
Source: Website of NASA - https://www.nasa.gov
Comentário: Pois é leitor, a NASA não brinca em serviço e
já esta se preparando para a primeira Missão Artemis. Aproveitamos para
agradecer ao nosso leitor Bernardino Silva pelo envio dessa notícia.
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