/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12627101
sls wont launch until mid-decade

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>>12047764
O L D S P A C E

>>11898541
SLS memes aside. I'll be fairly excited to see the orange rocket fly.

>we're taking this model to the moon and even on to Mars
SLS ON SUICIDE WATCH

>>11705453
>>11705453
NEW
>>11705453
>>11705453

SLS LAUNCH DATE SET

>NASA has finally set a new launch date for the oft-delayed first flight of its Space Launch System rocket. The formal date should be announced next week, a senior engineer at the agency said.

>During a committee meeting of NASA's Advisory Council, Tom Whitmeyer said the launch date would be "towards the end of next year." This mission, dubbed Artemis I by NASA, is seen as the agency's first step back toward the Moon. The uncrewed test flight, which will last between 26 and 42 days, will insert Orion into a lunar orbit before the deep space capsule returns to Earth.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/space-launch-system-rocket-now-targeted-for-a-late-2021-launch/

>>11672609
>NASA has to make SLS because congress mandated them to do so.
I've talked to people who frame it as a good thing as the project would be unkillable by the President. Which is a fair point, but it ignores that the rocket was only acceptable until 2018.

>"Let's be very honest again," Bolden said in a 2014 interview. "We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real. You've seen it down at Michoud. We're building the core stage. We have all the engines done, ready to be put on the test stand at Stennis... I don't see any hardware for a Falcon 9 Heavy, except that he's going to take three Falcon 9s and put them together and that becomes the Heavy. It's not that easy in rocketry."
Threadly reminder.

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>>11522089
>he current upper stage lifted almost directly from the Delta IV rocket family has been heavily delayed anyway
Source? Because that sounds too ridiculous even for SLS.

>>11362547
Also requesting another $15million to redesign the exploding bolts, previously did not achieve satisfactory enough separation

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