The first test flight of super-heavy booster SLS is scheduled for 2018.
Space Agency NASA conducted a successful test of one of the two 77-ton rocket boosters of a space system SLS, which will go to Mars. The tests were conducted above ground. The accelerator was placed on a special platform and carried out a planned 2-minute burn.
The timing is no accident. So much will be necessary to work out ucitelem SLS system to raise the rocket into the air. After cooling, passed the test accelerator to disassemble parts and in the details will find out how successful was his check.
The first test flight of super-heavy booster SLS is scheduled for 2018. NASA put very much on the SLS, but before you can launch a rocket to Mars, you will need to make sure that she is ready to rise from the Ground. To address this issue space Agency is testing almost each individual component of the rocket.
Last August, for example, has successfully tested a rocket engine of one of the steps system, but the main work (75 percent load) on the withdrawal of missiles from our planet’s atmosphere be incumbent on boosters.
In addition, it should be noted that this is not the first ground test accelerator SLS. In March of this year also conducted the 2-minute burn under full load, which showed that the system can operate at very high temperatures. Today’s test showed that the fuel in the tanks is heated to just 4.5 degrees Celsius, while the temperature inside the nozzle at full load comes to 3316 degrees Celsius.
