The U.S. space agency (NASA), in order to November this year’s unmanned lunar landing program, at 17:30 EST on the 16th in Mississippi Stennis Space Center (Stennis Space Center) to test the engine of a “mega rocket”, however, after igniting the four engines, originally planned to let the engine launch 8 minutes to simulate the rocket into orbit, but in the engine launch 1 minute and 15 seconds after the test ended hastily.
This oversized rocket for NASA’s new launch vehicle “Space Launch System” (Space Launch System), referred to as the SLS rocket, NASA will use this rocket to complete the “Artemis programme” (Artemis programme), the Trump administration’s goal is to carry U.S. astronauts back to the moon before 2024.
The SLS rocket is scheduled to make its maiden voyage in November this year, making it the most powerful rocket ever launched into space, when it will send the Orion spacecraft (Orion), a new generation of U.S. spacecraft, into lunar orbit.
This is NASA and engine manufacturer Boeing’s eighth and final engine test “Green Run” (Green Run) program. Now the test ended early, it is not clear whether to test again, so the maiden voyage of the SLS rocket scheduled for November may be delayed until next year.
The engine test was the first time four RS-25 engines ignited at the same time. In response to the early end of the test, NASA engineer Cagnola (Alex Cagnola) said: “We managed to ignite the engine, in the first minute we started the engine, started to propel the rocket, we got good data, we had to overcome certain obstacles to keep the engine running, but the test team saw some data they did not want to see, early shutdown of the engine.
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