The launch of the Artemis mission 1 by NASA is planned for this Wednesday, November 16 at 1:04 am (local time); 3:04 in Argentina and Chile; 1:04 in Colombia and Peru; 7:04 in Spain; and 00:04 in Mexico City.
The mission will consist in carrying out a unmanned flight around the Moon, without landing on it, and try to confirm if the sls rocket (Space Launch System Rocket), the most powerful in the worldit is safe to be manned in the future.
This will be the third take-off attempt of the mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
It happens that last August the pot had to interrupt the mission for a series of technical failures; and the same thing happened in september but because of the weather conditions and hurricanes.
In this sense, this morning the time promises to help as there is a high probability that it will be favorable.
Artemis 1 on the Moon, after 50 years
Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, this unmanned test flight, which it will fly past the Moon without landing on its surface.
The main objective of the mission is to test the performance of deep space exploration systems, which are the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft, as well as the ground systems from Kennedy Space Center.
The idea is that this same rocket will carry the moon At the beginning woman and the first person of color.
What will the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon be like?
Despite this being a night launch, some are believed to be 100,000 people they will admire the show, especially from the nearby beaches.
The complex refueling operations They will kick off Tuesday afternoon at the Kennedy Space Center and will be led by Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the first female launch director for the pot.
The orange rocket will be filled with 2.7 million liters of oxygen liquid and hydrogen. During the northern summer, a hydrogen leak caused the second attempt to be canceled at the last minute.
The procedures have since been successfully modified and verified through a test. The first wipe had to do with a faulty sensor.
The officials of the pot they repeated that these problems are normal for a new shiphence their teams They are learning.
In total, the program is several years behind schedule and has become a NASA imperative successfully complete the missioncosting several billion dollars.
Two minutes after launch, the boosters will drop into the Atlantic. After eight minutes, the rocket’s orange main core will detach into the Atlantic and the The Orion capsule will continue its journey. After one orbit around the Earth, it will depart for the Moon.
At that time, the teams control center in Houston, Texas, will handle the mission.
The Orion capsule Sara powered by two thrusters and four powerful engines below the main section, which will separate a few minutes later.
After a final push from the upper reaches, the capsule will be on its way to the Moon, towards which it will take several days to arrive.
There it will be placed in a distant orbit, even daring to place itself up to 64,000 kilometers behind our natural satellitefarther than any other manned spacecraft to date.
Then the capsule will start its own return to earth. Its heat shield, the largest ever built, will have to withstand a temperature equal to half that of the surface of the Sun as it passes through the atmosphere.
If take-off takes place this Wednesday, the mission would last a total of 25 days and a half, landing in the Pacific Ocean on 11 December.
As the story of space continues
After the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo missions, and the space shuttles, the SLS should bring NASA to new era of human exploration in deep space.
After this first mission, Artemis 2 It will lead toastronauts on the moon in 2024but without to land still here. This honor is reserved for the crew of the Artemis 3, in 2025.
At that point, NASA wants to launch close one mission per year to establish a constant human presence on the Moonbuild the gateway space station orbit around it and install a base on the lunar surface.
The goal is test new equipment theresuch as space suits, pressurized vehicles, mini power plants, and using ice water, trying to establish a lasting human presence.
This experiment would serve as a preparation for a manned trip to Marsin the late 2030s. A round trip that will last at least two years.
With information from EFE.
Source: Clarin
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