NAS has quietly announced that the development budget for its giant rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), is now. 1.91 billion (bn 7bn). A further budget of ground systems n 2.4bn will be made to support this mission. As Ars Technica has stated, the new development shows a 33% increase in the cost of the mission.
In 2017, NASA aimed to launch the SLS rocket in the December 2019-June 2020 window, with a total value of 7.17 billion. The first launch of the SLS will now be an unmanned test in which the rocket will propel NASA’s newly developed Orion Multi Purpose Crew vehicle on a two-day lunar and rear trip. Scheduled in November 2021, it will be the first test flight of NASA’s Artemis program, designed to land astronauts on the moon with its third mission, scheduled for 2024.
During a test flight in November 2021, the Orion capsule will spend six days in lunar orbit. The main phase of the SLS rocket that will propel the flight is being tested at NASA’s Stanislaus Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
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