spacex has transported an upgraded super heavy booster that is booster 7 to its
south texas launch facilities where the rocket will likely be tested with a rarely used stand
known as the can crusher on wednesday march 30th spacex scheduled a temporary road closure
indicative of transport operations on march 31st
the friday prior super heavy booster 7 b7 left the high bay it was assembled in multiple times
only to roll back inside at the end of the day more likely than not spacex decided to
keep working on the booster inside the shelter of the high bay while a different team focused
on preparing starbase orbital launch site ols for b7s arrival simultaneously moving
booster 7 also made room for spacex to begin stacking booster 8 which began the same day
this is chopsticks catch point installed on booster 7. spacex will use this hook to
lift booster 7 with chopstick arms thanks to starship gazer for this amazing shot
yesterday spacex delivered three raptor two engines to starbase these raptors will be
installed onto the upcoming starship and super heavy prototypes in the coming days we can see
more and more trucks with raptor two engines as spacex is nearing to test super heavy prototypes
nasa has ordered 12 additional missions under its commercial resupply services 2 crs 2 contracts to
ensure continuous science and cargo delivery for the agency and its international partners to the
international space station the 12 additional missions ordered six each to northrop grumman
and spacex will provide resupply services to the station through 2026.
in 2016 nasa awarded three american companies crs two contracts to resupply the international
space station so crew members can continue to conduct scientific research and technology
development that benefits people on earth and supports human missions to the moon and mars
while the maximum potential value of all contracts is 14 billion dollars
nasa orders missions as needed and the total prices paid under the contract will depend on
which mission types are ordered on october 16 2020 nasa ordered two additional missions from
northrop grumman and three additional missions from spacex beyond the minimum guaranteed
with this action a total of 32 missions have been ordered by the agency for cargo resupply
missions under the crs 2 contracts with 14 missions to northrop grumman
three missions to sierra nevada corporation now sierra space and 15 missions to spacex
nasa's artemis one moon rocket is ready for its next close-up
the world got its first good look at the space launch system sls rocket and orion capsule
that will fly on artemis one two weeks ago when the duo rolled out to its launch pad at nasa's
kennedy space center in florida on march 17th and 18th the artemis one stack rolled out to
gear up for a round of tests centering on a wet dress rehearsal which will take sls
and orion through many of their launch day procedures the wet dress rehearsal has
been scheduled for this coming weekend and nasa recently gave that timeline the official go ahead
in a pre-test review on march 28th nasa gave the dough to proceed with the artemis one-wet dress
rehearsal scheduled for april first to third nasa officials wrote in an update on monday march 28th
the approximately two day test will run the artemis one launch team through operations to
load propellant into the rockets tanks conduct a full launch countdown demonstrate the ability
to recycle the countdown clock and also drain the tanks to give them an opportunity to practice the
timelines and procedures they will use for launch the officials added if all goes according to plan
the test will officially begin at 5 pm eastern daylight time on friday
april 1st and wrap up roughly 48 hours later around 5 pm on sunday april 3rd nasa officials
said during a call with reporters on tuesday march 29th the simulated countdown will occur on sunday
afternoon artemis one will launch an uncrude orion on a roughly month-long mission around the moon
with the aim of showing that both sls and orion are ready to carry astronauts on deep space tracks
nasa has not yet set a launch date for artemis 1 and won't do so until teams have had a chance
to analyze data gathered during the wet dress rehearsal and other tests agency officials have
said the mission is unlikely to launch before june however if all goes well with artemis 1
nasa will be clear to gear up for the next mission in its artemis program of crude lunar exploration
that flight artemis 2 will launch astronauts around the moon in 2024 if current timelines hold
artemis 3 will land astronauts near the lunar south pole in 2025 or 2026
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