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NASA currently uses crawler-transporter 2 to transport the Space Launch System with the Orion spacecraft atop it from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B for the Artemis missions. Early in 2016, NASA finished upgrading crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) to a "Super Crawler" for use in the Artemis program. [10]
The Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter. A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled (stacked) vertically in an integration facility (e.g. the Vehicle Assembly Building) and then transported by a crawler-transporter (CT) to a launch pad.
First crewed launch from SLC-40. [155] After NASA decided to return Starliner's Crewed Flight Test (CFT) vehicle uncrewed, it was decided that Crew-9 would launch with only 2 crew members of the originally intended 4, and land with the added 2 Starliner CFT crew.
During the joint Senate-NASA presentation in September 2011, it was stated that the SLS program had a projected development cost of US$18 billion through 2017, with $10 billion for the SLS rocket, $6 billion for the Orion spacecraft, and $2 billion for upgrades to the launch pad and other facilities at Kennedy Space Center.
EGS is preparing the infrastructure to support NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its payloads, such as the Orion spacecraft for Artemis I. [2] [3] Artemis I is the first to launch in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human exploration to the Moon and Mars. [4] [5] [6]
The launch of this mission was originally planned with Roscosmos' Angara 1.2 rocket, but the South Korean Ministry of Science cancelled this contract due to sanctions against Russia and signed a launch contract with Arianespace. 2025 (TBD) [275] Vega-C: Kourou ELV: Arianespace: TBA: TBA: Low Earth TBA SSMS #6 rideshare mission.
First launch of Starlink Group 8 Satellites from Cape Canaveral. 5 June 03:15 [206] [188] Electron "PREFIRE & Ice" Mahia LC-1B: Rocket Lab ⚀ PREFIRE 2: NASA: Low Earth: Meteorology: In orbit: Operational Second of two launches for NASA's PREFIRE mission. 5 June 14:52 [207] [208] [209] Atlas V N22 AV-085 [210] Cape Canaveral SLC-41: ULA: Boe ...
Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) is the second of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.The pad, along with Launch Complex 39A, was first designed for the Saturn V launch vehicle, which at the time was the United States' most powerful rocket.