WASHINGTON, February 1, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Media is invited to attend the second hot fire at NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket – test of the rocket’s main stage and its integrated systems before going on a lunar mission Artemis I. NASA is focusing on the week of February 21st for the experiment in the B-2 Test Center at the nearby NASA Stennis Space Center St. John’s Bay Louis, Mississippi. The test date will be set after the test is ready for testing.
It is the deadline for media credit 4pm EST Monday, Feb. 8, and will be limited to U.S. citizens only.
All credit applications should be submitted online at:
https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
NASA continues to monitor coronavirus pandemic and will credit a small number of media for accessing Stennis to protect the health and safety of the media and employees. Due to the safety restrictions of COVID-19 at Stennis, all attendees are required to follow quarantine requirements.
NASA will follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the agency ‘s chief health and medical officer, and will notify any update that may affect media access for the test.
For media credit questions, email [email protected]. For other queries, please contact the Stennis Communications Office at 228-688-3333. Reporters with requests for specific accommodation should contact Valerie Buckingham at [email protected] le Tuesday, February 9th.
The hot fire is the final round in a series of eight tests to make sure the platform systems are working and ready for operation. During the test, engineers load propellants into the main stage and allow them to flow throughout the system as the four Rs-25 engines fire at the same time to show that all engines, tanks, fuel lines, valves and software can perform together just as they do on the day of launch.
After the test, NASA will send the main stage to the agency’s body Kennedy Space Center into Florida, where engineers assemble along the other parts of the Artemis I rocket and the Orion spacecraft.
The main stage was built at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans with donations from providers across the country. Boeing is the main contractor for the platform and Aerojet Rocketdyne built the RS-25 engines. Engineers from Stennis, NASA Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the test will be carried out by SLS contractors.
For more information about the test, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram/greenrun
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