NASA has successfully tested the most powerful rocket on the planet

Seeing the experiment today, with the experience of the sound and power of thrust of over 1600 tons, we clearly felt the human progress in the process of exploring the universe, opening up a new limit for people to reach.

In the Utah desert, the world's most powerful rocket engine has been successfully tested. It is a vital component of NASA's Rocket Launch System, successfully testing the second lane at a test facility at Promontory, Utah.

This is the final engine test of the SLS propulsion system (Space Launch System) to take NASA's Orion unmanned spacecraft to test flight at the end of 2018. That will be an important milestone of the agency. This universe is in its Mars Mission.

The crowd gathered to watch the moment NASA tested rockets, tested by NASA to be a great success.

"The final test of this engine system demonstrates the obvious developments of the Space Rocket Launch System , " said William Gerstenmaier, co-chair of the Board of Human Discovery and Space Mission. at NASA headquarters, located in Washington.

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"Seeing the experiment today, with the experience of sound and power of thrust of more than 1600 tons, we clearly feel the human progress in the process of exploring the universe, open create a new limit for people to reach ".

The engine is tested in an extremely cold state, falling into about 4 degrees Celsius.

The engine was tested in an extremely cold state, falling to about 4 degrees Celsius. When ignited, dynamics exploded and temperatures reached more than 3,000 degrees Celsius. Burning continuously for 2 minutes, the engine gave NASA valuable information about what this engine can bring, as a solid foundation for launching Orion at the end of 2018.

When completed, two rocket engines and four other RS-25 main engines will power the SLS into space. They will provide 75% of the propulsion energy needed to get the Orion ship out of Earth's gravity.

Currently, the engine can lift 77 tons. Scientists are considering upgrading so that it can lift up to 115 tons, so that more difficult tasks can be done in the future.

Earlier this year, NASA successfully tested the RS-25 rocket engine, which has been burning continuously for 500 seconds, "an event marking the era of human exploration of the next universe."

Scientists are aiming to explore further distances.

Next time, when that engine can burn in such a time, is when it takes people to space in a mission to explore the distance beyond the Moon, perhaps over 45 years.

Scientists are aiming to explore farther away than the Moon and consider the journey to Mars. Successfully testing this system will be a big step towards that goal.

The engines used in this SLS space mission are the remaining Space Shuttle Program engines, these well-known engines have provided power to 135 ship rooms to space. , from 1981 to 2011.

"This not only marked an important step in proving the guarantee of the SLS design with the first flight, we also felt happy because of its historical tradition: it used to take a lot of astronauts. to the universe, before it takes the SLS into space in the first passenger flight ".

After a successful test today, Aerojet Rocketdyne will project a new banana engine, while continuing to test the RS-25. In addition, they are preparing a launch pad to test the SLS core engine that will be used in Discovery Mission-1, the first flight of this rocket engine.

NASA successfully tested the RS-25 rocket engine.

The test will include the installation of the entire missile system pushed to the launch pad.

In 2018, Orion will fly 69,000km farther from the Earth to the Moon and return. to do a system test, to make sure everything is perfect before putting people on the planet so far.

This space mission will last for 3 weeks, the test will assess the safety of Orion ships as well as SLS engines before we can safely send people to the ship, in the mission to conquer the next universe.

At the end of last year, NASA released a video that explained how the specific Orion mission would be.

What will the Orion mission be in 2018?This video explains all.

After launching into space and balancing in low orbit, 19m-long solar panels will be extended, helping Orion get energy.

Then, using liquid oxygen and hydrogen-based propulsion systems, a system never used before, launches to the Moon.

Orion will fly over the Moon, taking advantage of the gravity of this "giant satellite" to get more speed, launching into space in front of it, with a distance of nearly half a million kilometers from the Earth.

After that, Orion's main engine will be used to bring this ship back. On the way back, Orion will "visit" the Moon again, and head to Earth.

Just outside of the Earth's atmosphere, the part of the vessel containing the crew will separate from the engine and land on the Pacific Ocean. Response will be supported by 3 large umbrellas.

Orion looks a lot like Apollo's predecessor, but Orion's technology is much more advanced.

42 years after Apollo 17 left (December 7, 1972), Orion will fly into the first trajectory (December 5, 2014). Technology really has gone very far in less than half a decade.

Orion's cockpit is wider, can accommodate up to 4 members. And the amount of necessities that Orion contains is much larger than Apollo.

The Apollo mission eventually sends two astronauts to the Front Page for 3 days, but Orion's planet or Mars mission will be much, much longer, up to 450 days in space.

In addition to testing rocket boosters, NASA also tested the response in months. In August, even NASA used parachutes to test whether the crew was in danger if an error occurred.

As a result, Orion still landed gently on the sandy face of the Arizona desert with a broken umbrella.

2018 will be the year of unmanned Orion testing. If all goes well, NASA in April 2023 will carry out Discovery Mission 2, with a similar path but this time, 4 astronauts will fly.

2026 will be the year NASA takes a manned spacecraft to land on a small planet. And if every test succeeds, by the year 2030, it is no longer an impossible challenge for people to set foot on Mars.