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NASA’s Massive Artemis Moon Rocket Set for Second Hot Fire Test – Watch Live Coverage Today:
NASA is targeting a two-hour test window that opens at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 18, for the second hot fire test of the core stage for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The agency plans to begin live coverage on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app approximately 30 minutes before the hot fire. The team will refine the timeline as it proceeds through operations. NASA will provide updates on the operations and the target hot fire time at @NASA and the Artemis blog.
[...] A post-test briefing will follow on NASA Television approximately two hours after the test.
Previously:
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After a Decade, NASA’s Big Rocket Fails its First Real Test
NASA TV to Air Hot Fire Test of Rocket Core Stage for Artemis Missions
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday March 18 2021, @08:47PM (4 children)
So they fired for over eight minutes. Nothing blew up.
During the build up to the test, I liked how they confidently talk about SLS and the Orion capsule will be the way humans will return to the moon. Uh, I wouldn't place bets on that just yet.
They got the full duration test data they were after today.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 19 2021, @12:18AM (3 children)
If Senator Shelby and his cronies on the Appropriations Committee have anything to say about it, and they very much do, then SLS will be the only way that Americans return to the moon, if at all. This is the man who threatened to kill NASA's manned space program completely if ULA even mentioned in-space refuelling, let alone tried to develop the technology, because it would allow them to compete with SLS.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 19 2021, @12:49AM
> SLS will be the only way that NASA returns to the moon
Fixed that for you. Other Americans will be free to hire Starship for a tiny fraction of the cost. And it won't be NASA establishing a commercially viable fuel (oxygen) refinery on the moon.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday March 19 2021, @10:52AM (1 child)
Shelby is retiring after 2022, at least.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 19 2021, @07:55PM
True, but his best crony Bill 'Ballast' Nelson is being appointed as head of NASA. I'm halfway expecting him to cut the commercial crew program (that is saving NASA hundreds of millions per launch) so he can plow more money into SLS. He already tried it once as a Senator and managed to expropriate half the funding.