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We build, launch, and recover rockets and spacecraft for Artemis, humanity’s return to the Moon. 🚀🌕
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Fueling complete ⛽
Last week, teams
@NASAKennedy
successfully flowed liquid hydrogen and oxygen onto the mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B to prove both tanks can support the
@NASAArtemis
II mission. Next, teams will test an additional hydrogen tank used to minimize time…
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Success! 🙌 Yesterday afternoon, teams with
@NASA
and
@Bechtel
set mobile launcher 2 on top of its permanent mounts, marking completion of the jack and set milestone.
From here, teams at
@NASAKennedy
will continue building mobile launcher 2 ahead of the
#Artemis
IV mission.…
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Teams worked hard throughout the day to accomplish the "set" step of jack and set, aligning the 6 pins of the mobile launcher 2 base with its permanent mounts 👷
Stay tuned for a photo wrap-up and more information tomorrow!
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🎶 "These jacks keep lifting me higher and higher" 🎶
This morning, teams at
@NASAKennedy
jacked the mobile launcher 2 base to 23ft. Meanwhile, the crawler is staged and starting up, ready to complete the final leg of jack and set!
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The self-propelled modular transporters have rolled out and jacks have raised the mobile launcher 2 base over 17ft! Teams are now preparing for the crawler's arrival by clearing equipment from the area and "fluffing" gravel to create the perfect pulverize-able path.
Soon, teams…
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Crawler-transporter 2 is on the move! 🕺 💃 Since late January, it has undergone modifications in the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 1. This is the crawler’s first move since teams replaced 8 of 16 steering cylinders, removed, rebuilt, and reinstalled its 4 DC generators,…
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We have liftup! Today, four self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT) lifted mobile launcher 2 off its temporary mounts 🏋️ The base is secured by pins which protrude from the bottom of the base and slot into the top of each mount. This step lifted the base 18 inches to clear its…
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Mobile launcher 2 will allow the agency to send heavier, increasingly complex missions to the Moon 🌖
As the base of mobile launcher 2 nears its first lift of jack and set at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, read more about how it compares to mobile launcher 1 and how it will be…
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43 steel super assemblies 🏗️ 192ft of welds 🔥 and 7,526 bolts 🔩 all assembled by over 170 people to prepare the whopping 2.6-million-pound mobile launcher 2 base for jack and set.
In this upcoming operation, teams
@NASAKennedy
will lift the base in three phases: First, four…
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#Artemis
currently has over 3,800 suppliers contributing to
@NASA_SLS
and
@NASA_Orion
.
Exploration Ground Systems has been visiting some of our suppliers in the Northeast this week to thank them for their hard work.
Read more about Artemis partners here:
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NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Retweeted
We’re celebrating the full Moon with a look at what’s to come with Artemis II and a look back at our Artemis I journey, which set records, exceeded expectations, and established new baselines for humans in deep space.
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