NASA has tested a new engine of the world's most powerful rocket for a moon flight (video)

This was the second test of the Space Launch System rocket engine for less than a week. On January 23, NASA completed the second RS-25 engine test, which will be equipped with the most powerful rocket launcher in the world Space Launch System (SLS) during the ARTEMIS-5 mission at the moon. The test lasted about 8 minutes and was conducted at the John Stannis Space Center. It is the largest test center of NASA missile engines located in Mississippi, Space writes. In focus.

Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The results of the new test are still unknown, but according to the NASA statement, as well as during the first test of the modified RS-25 engine for the SLS rocket launcher, which took place on January 17, engineers studied the work of new engine components, including nozzles, hydraulic drives, flexible air ducts And turbo pumps.

NASA engineers want to confirm the performance of the modified RS-25 engines in order to use them during a month's flight within the Artemis program. So far, 2 of the planned 12 tests of the new motor system for the SLS rocket. These rocket engines should be used during the flight for a month in 2029 as part of the Artemis-5 mission, when astronauts will fly to the Earth's satellite. This mission should be the third flight for a month with the crew.

We remind that in 2022 the Armemis 1 unmanned mission was successfully completed, when the first NASA used the SLS rocket to run the Orion spacecraft. As the focus has already written, a year after the ship's return to NASA, NASA showed how it happened. In 2025, four astronauts will go to orbit around the moon as part of the Artemis 2 mission, which was to take place this year. Focus has already written about what astronauts would see from orbit for the first time in 5 decades.

The replacement of the implementation of this mission was influenced by the fact that due to technical difficulties and problems with the NASA budget it was necessary to postpone in 2026 the first in the 21st century the flight of astronauts a month during the Mission of Artemis 3, as focus already wrote. Initially, the return to the month was scheduled for 2025.

During the Missions of Artemis 2, Artemis 3 and Artemis 4, SLS rocket launcher will use RS-25 engines that were used by space rods but were improved. But during the Mission of Artemis 5, the rocket should be equipped with an even more modified version of RS-25 engines that create more traction. According to NASA, these engines should create a thrust of 109% of the initial power, although it is planned to bring this figure to 113%.

The SLS is headed by Boeing, and it reuse it with space shuttle equipment for the new NASA monthly monthly. According to focus, American scientists have received funding for the creation of a new type of nuclear rocket engines, which can quickly reach the outer part of the solar system, as well as adjacent stars. Focus also wrote that experts told what the month would be in 2075. Scientists believe that by 2075 there will be at least one permanent inhabited station for the month.