NASA’s SLS rocket will go through a second and longer hot fire test – Yahoo Finance Australia

NASA will conduct a second hot fire test for the Space Launch Systems rocket core stage as early as the fourth week of February. It will be part of the rockets Green Run series of tests meant to assess the core stage and ensure its ready for the Artemis I mission, which will send an unmanned Orion spacecraft to the Moon. The rockets first ever hot fire test in midJanuary, wherein all four of its RS-25 engines fired simultaneously, was cut short due to a problem with its hydraulic system. What was…

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