{"id":19794,"date":"2021-02-02T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2021-02-12T22:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:17:47","slug":"nasa-invites-media-for-second-test-to-fire-rocket-for-artemis-moon-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-invites-media-for-second-test-to-fire-rocket-for-artemis-moon-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Invites Media for Second Test to Fire Rocket for Artemis Moon Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-675x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19795\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-675x449.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-602x400.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-174x116.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA is targeting the week of Feb. 21 for the test in the B-2 Test Stand at NASA\u2019s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this. media are invited to attend NASA\u2019s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/artemis\/2021\/01\/29\/green-run-update-nasa-proceeds-with-plans-for-second-hot-fire-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second<\/a>\u00a0Green Run hot fire \u2013 a test of the rocket\u2019s core stage and all of its integrated systems before its flight on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artemis I<\/a>\u00a0lunar mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hot fire is the final in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/systems\/sls\/multimedia\/artemis-testing-sls-green-run-checklist-cropped.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of eight tests<\/a>\u00a0to ensure the stage\u2019s systems are functioning and ready for operation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the test, engineers will load propellants into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/systems\/sls\/multimedia\/infographics\/corestage101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">core stage<\/a>\u00a0and allow them to flow throughout the system as the four RS-25 engines fire simultaneously to demonstrate that the engines, tanks, fuel lines, valves, and software can all perform together just as they will on launch day NASA states in Press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the test, NASA will ship the core stage to the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where engineers will assemble it with the other parts of the Artemis I rocket and the Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The core stage was built at NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans with contributions from suppliers across the country. Boeing is the lead contractor for the core stage and Aerojet Rocketdyne built the RS-25 engines. Engineers from Stennis, NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and SLS contractors will conduct the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is targeting the week of Feb. 21 for the test in the B-2 Test Stand at NASA\u2019s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",985,655,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-602x400.jpg",602,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-768x511.jpg",750,499,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-675x449.jpg",675,449,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",985,655,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",985,655,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",985,655,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",857,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",600,399,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",600,399,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",640,426,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nasa-moon-mission.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/culture\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Culture<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}