SLS - space launch system (3-я попытка)

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 7 мин. назад

Rolling. Heading up to the turn to 39B. Quiz time: Do you know the origins of a slip road on right side of the turn where the observation gantry is? (I do, but let's have a quiz)

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 14 мин. назад

If Fixed Service Structures could talk. SpaceX 39A FSS meet SLS ML.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 23 мин. назад

Approaching the Mount Mechanisms on 39B. We'll soon be heading into Hard Down ops and that'll mark the ML's official arrival.



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Hard down expected at about 3pm Eastern. Currently in a planned stop to verify the alignment between the mounts and the crawler/ML using the Laser Docking System.

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Tom McCool‏ @Cygnusx112 39 мин. назад

What a beautiful site! The ML is now on top of 39B. Just imagine when @NASA_SLS is sitting there? That's going to be cool!
@NASASpaceflight #NASA @ExploreSpaceKSC

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NASA's Exploration Ground Systems‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAGroundSys 17 мин. назад

And our mobile launcher has made the 4.4 mile journey to Launch Pad 39B!

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 23 мин. назад

SLS Mobile Launcher arrives at 39B (Pending Hard Down, but they have made it to the pad).

ARTICLE:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/08/sls-ml-rollout-39b-one-year-vab-work-em-1/ ...

Includes photos from Tom McCool @Cygnusx112 and Evan Richard @TheEvangineer

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 1 ч. назад

Worth noting they've had a bit of trouble getting aligned for hard down on 39B with the ML. Not unsurprising for a first time op like this, but a good reason for test rollouts.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 30 мин. назад

Hard Down. SLS Mobile Launcher has officially completed rollout to Pad 39B.

4.4 miles in two days - as planned. Congrats to NASA Exploration Ground Systems (@NASAGroundSys) and all the contractors.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/08/sls-ml-rollout-39b-one-year-vab-work-em-1/ ...

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/01/photos-sls-mobile-launch-platform-rolls-to-pad-39b/

Photos: SLS mobile launch platform rolls to pad 39B
September 1, 2018 | Stephen Clark


The Space Launch System's mobile launch platform approaches a fork in the crawlerway leading to launch pad 39B, in the background. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

The towering structure to be used for liftoffs of NASA's Space Launch System rolled fr om a construction site to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week, arriving at the seaside complex Friday for a week of fit checks.

The nearly 400-foot-tall tower, riding one of NASA's huge diesel-powered crawler-transporters, departed a position north of the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39B on Thursday afternoon. Running at an average speed of less than 1 mph, the crawler carried the mobile launch platform, specially designed for the SLS, along the same pathway covered in crushed river rock used by Saturn 5 moon rockets and space shuttles on their journeys to the launch pad.

The crawler-transporter paused Thursday night along the crawlerway, as planned, then resumed the trip Friday, before arriving atop the ramp at pad 39B at conclusion of the 4.4-mile (7.1-kilometer) rollout. NASA announced the mobile launch platform arrived at pad 39B at 2:43 p.m. EDT (1843 GMT) as jacks on the crawler-transporter lowered the tower atop pedestals at the launch complex.

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Originally built for NASA's Ares 1 rocket, a single-booster launcher which never flew on an orbital mission before its cancellation in 2010, the mobile platform weighs approximately 10.5 million pounds. After the Ares 1 rocket was canceled with NASA's Constellation moon program in 2010, NASA decided to modify the structure for the more powerful Space Launch System, which replaced the Ares rocket family as the launch vehicle for the space agency's ambitions for the human exploration of deep space.

The SLS will tower more than 30 stories tall, and will become the most powerful launcher in the world once it debuts. Its primary use will be to launch NASA's Orion crew capsule, a four-person craft that will take astronauts to the vicinity of the moon, wh ere NASA intends to construct a mini-space station in a high-altitude lunar orbit.

NASA plans the first launch of the Space Launch System in 2020, lofting an Orion spacecraft an uncrewed test flight to orbit around the moon and back to Earth. The first SLS/Orion launch with astronauts to travel around the moon and back is planned in mid-2022.

Pad 39B was originally built for the Saturn 5 moon rocket and the space shuttle program. NASA demolished the shuttle-era structures at the pad, erected three lightning masts, and modified the facility as a "clean pad" without a permanent launch tower.

The SLS mobile launch platform will provide the umbilical connections to the rocket, including the walkway astronauts will use to board the Orion spacecraft.

Read our earlier story for details on the rollout.

Photos of the mobile launcher's rollout are posted below.


The mobile launcher tower is lit up in a kaleidoscope of color in the early morning Aug. 30, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Preparations are underway to move crawler-transporter 2 under the mobile launcher, pick it up and move it along the crawlerway to launch pad 39B for a fit check and interface tests with pad launch systems. Credit: NASA


Credit: NASA/Cory Huston


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Credit: NASA/Jamie Peer


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https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/big-voice-test-prepares-new-support-center-for-first-sls-launch.html

Aug. 29, 2018

'Big Voice Test' Prepares New Support Center for First SLS Launch


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Engineers Fred Whisnant and Jennifer Vollmer check out communication systems during a big voice test Aug. 21, 2018, at the Space Launch System (SLS) Engineering Support Center in the Huntsville Operations Support Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test verified that all systems are "go" when it comes to voice communications for the first integrated flight of the SLS deep space rocket and the Orion spacecraft: Exploration Mission-1. During the test, participants used headsets and voice loops to communicate with 13 locations across America including, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the U.S. Air Force's Patrick Air Force and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, as well as many NASA contractor sites around the country. The support center allows experts who designed and built SLS to work together, saving agency resources by minimizing the need for travel to the Kennedy launch site. Leading up to launch, the Marshall team along with teams from Johnson and Kennedy will conduct numerous tests to verify video, data and other systems in the new mission support room. This week, in addition to the voice tests, Orion completed a series of tests to ensure the spacecraft and mission controllers at Johnson can flawlessly communicate through NASA's satellite networks in space and on the ground when Orion and its crew are far from Earth on missions to the Moon and beyond. These tests will culminate in full-up mission simulations to ensure engineers and technicians from across the country are virtually connected during the countdown, launch and flight of the world's most powerful rocket and the Orion spacecraft.

Image credit: NASA/Tyler Martin

Last Updated: Aug. 30, 2018
Editor: Lee Mohon

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 16 мин. назад

NASA is targetting Friday at around 3:00 PM EDT for the next hot fire test of the RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center. However, this test could be delayed due to Tropical Storm Gordon. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html ...

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NASA Kennedy / KSC‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAKennedy 8 мин. назад

Here at Kennedy where @NASAGroundSys refurbished Pad 39B, the mobile launcher will undergo fit checks. Using a "clean pad" concept, the umbilicals on the mobile launcher will provide "life support" to the @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion spacecraft.

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September 7, Friday
 3 p.m. – RS-25 Engine Test from Stennis Space Center (All Channels)

:!:   Испытание перенесено на один день раньше, 2018-09-06   :!:  

Stennis Space Center‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAStennis 42 мин.назад

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! Tune in tomorrow for a Facebook Live event of an RS-25 Engine Test tentatively targeted for 2:00 p.m. (CDT) @ NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center
#SLSFiredUp #NASASSC #NASAStennis

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Check out this incredible aerial footage from last week's mobile launcher move...

https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/10000000_309207193002972_151646658042527744_n.mp4?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9oZCJ9&oh=5d57fa82aed47427ec3654fabbf964d4&oe=5B916E04 (2:21)
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/along-the-way-to-launch-pad-39b

Sept. 5, 2018

Along the Way to Launch Pad 39B



A truck sprays water to reduce the dust as NASA's crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) with the mobile launcher (ML) atop moves slowly along, on its trek to Launch Pad 39B on August 31, 2018, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. CT-2 will move the mobile launcher up to the surface of the pad where it will undergo a fit check, followed by several days of systems testing.

The 380-foot-tall mobile launcher is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.

Image Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

Last Updated: Sept. 5, 2018
Editor: Yvette Smith

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NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center 1 ч. · 

Today's Facebook Live event of an RS-25 Engine Test NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center is targeted for approximately 2:20 p.m. (CDT). STAY TUNED! #SLSFiredUp #NASASSC #NASAStennis

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