The gigantic SLS blasted off into the dark Florida sky, becoming the most powerful rocket to ever take flight. The Artemis era has officially begun.
The megarocket launched 43 minutes into the two-hour launch window, which opened at 1:04 a.m. ET. A hydrogen leak was detected during upper stage tanking, requiring a team of specialists to enter the launch pad and tighten bolts that had come loose. A problem with the Eastern Range’s radar, which is linked to the rocket’s abort system, caused a further delay, but the issue was resolved by swapping out a faulty Ethernet cable., with the “go” for launch coming shortly thereafter.
, which swept through the region last week. High winds stripped 10 feet of caulk-like sealant from a gap between Orion’s launch abort system and the crew module adapter. Earlier this week, mission managers said more of the sealant, known as RTV , might fall off during launch, but they deemed the consequences as being low risk.
and Orion’s solar array deploying 20 minutes into the mission. It’ll take four days for the uncrewed spacecraft to reach the Moon, where it will spend 17 days spinning around our natural satellite. Following another four-day journey home, Orion’s heat shield will have to endure temperatures reaching 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit , as the spacecraft slams into Earth’s atmosphere at speeds reaching 25,000 miles per hour . For NASA, Artemis 1 is as much a test of SLS as it is of Orion.
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