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Topic: [Discuss] SLS Mobile Launcher development
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50516
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-17-2011 02:30 PM
   
Editor's note: In an effort to keep the topics ...focused on status updates, reader's feedback and opinions are directed to this thread. Please use this topic to discuss NASA's development of a new mobile launcher for its Space Launch System. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3782
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-28-2011 08:04 AM
Is there any particular reason why they painted the SLS launch tower grey instead of red like the Apollo launch towers? |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1815
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 02-18-2013 11:25 AM
Yes, because that red lead anti corrosion paint is seldom used anymore due to toxicity. |
butch wilks
Member Posts: 336
From: Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 02-08-2015 12:38 PM
Is NASA going construct a mobile service structure for the SLS as they did for the servicing of the Saturn V at the pad?If so, has anyone seen plans for it and a date for the construction of it? If not, how are they going to do the servicing of the SLS at the pad this time? |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1815
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 02-08-2015 12:39 PM
There is no need for an MSS. The SLS will be designed so that time on the pad is a matter of days versus weeks and that all necessary access will be either be from the VAB or umbilical tower. This puts SLS inline with other launch vehicles processes, where there is not another access facility other than the integration facility. |
denali414
Member Posts: 846
From: Raleigh, NC
Registered: Aug 2017
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posted 06-26-2019 08:00 AM
ML2 is the ground structure that will be used to assemble, process, and launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B rocket and Orion spacecraft from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy for missions under NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach. If this is the platform for launching SLS and going to take 44 months to build, how does this affect the 2024 plans to be back on moon? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50516
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-26-2019 08:08 AM
This second mobile launcher is intended for an upgraded version of the Space Launch System to come after the 2024 landing. The first mobile launcher will be used to support the initial Artemis missions. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3782
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 06-30-2020 10:20 AM
This photo of the VAB meatball being repainted is dated June 22, 2020.Is that a second SLS mobile launcher under construction in the background? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50516
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-30-2020 11:11 AM
That is the mobile launcher for Northrop Grumman's new OmegA rocket. If you look carefully at the base, you can make out the "OmegA" banner, as also seen here.As with the first SLS mobile launcher, the major components are being first built off site and then will be delivered to Kennedy Space Center for assembly and erection in the work yard adjacent to the Vehicle Assembly Building. |
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