Following a very hot fireplace exam in January ended early, NASA decided it needed extra info on the rocket core stage that it plans to use for missions to the Moon. So right now at Stennis Room Centre, all four RS-twenty five engines fired for 499.6 seconds, simulating what they will endure all through each individual trip to the Moon for the Artemis space program by throttling up and down, and relocating to direct thrust.
In a statement, performing NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said “Today’s prosperous very hot fireplace exam of the core stage for the SLS is an significant milestone in NASA’s goal to return humans to the lunar floor – and over and above.” Up coming, the core stage will go to Kennedy Room Centre in Florida where by assembly will get started making ready to make it section of Artemis I. And that can’t arrive before long more than enough, as the Room Launch Procedure undertaking is presently yrs driving the primary start projection of 2019.