Preparations for conducting the ultimate Green Run test for
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are proceeding as planned, and
therefore the core stage is on the program for a hot fire test tomorrow kindling
all four of its RS-25 engines.
NASA is aiming a two-hour test window that opens at 5 p.m.
EST Saturday, Jan.16, for the recent fire test at the agency’s Stennis Space Epicenter
near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Live attention will
begin at 4:20 p.m. on NASA Television and consequently the agency’s website,
followed by a post-test meeting approximately two hours after the test accomplishes.
The hot fire is that the eighth and final test of the Green
Run series to make sure the core stage of the SLS rocket is prepared to launch
Artemis missions to the Moon, beginning with Artemis I. The core stage includes
the liquid hydrogen tank and LOX tank, four RS-25 engines, and therefore the
computers,
Electronics, and avionics that function the “brains” of the
rocket. Through the test, engineer’s will power up all the core stage systems,
load quite 700,000 gallons of cryogenic,
or super cold, propellant into the tanks, and fire all four
engines at a corresponding time to pretend the stage’s operation during launch,
generating 1.6 Million pounds of thrust.
Learn more about Green Run, and check back at this blog for
updates on the SLS core stage hot fire test.
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