This more robust and powerful version promises to transport astronauts and huge payloads to the Moon in a single mission.
A final round of certification testing for production of new RS-25 engines to power the SLS rocket, beginning with Artemis V, is underway at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.NASA is gearing up for its future lunar and Mars missions with the Artemis III and IV programs. Accordingly, the rocket is evolving to meet the challenge. NASA is now aiming at an upgraded SLS Block 1B, a more powerful beast designed to haul astronauts and hefty lunar hardware simultaneously.
The manufacturing process and arrangements for Block 1B are already in motion at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The first three Artemis missions to the Moon were sent using a single-engine in-space stage called the interim cryogenic propulsion stage . However, it will be replaced by a larger, more powerful exploration upper stage with four engines. The EUS will come with a different battery that can support the first eight hours of the mission following launch, compared to the ICPS, which only lasts for two hours.
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