NASA's new generation spacecraft rocket launcher

The new generation rocket design of the US Space Agency (NASA), which can help astronauts explore further in space, has passed a series of important tests.

NASA's new generation spacecraft launcher, Space Launch System (SLS) , has passed a series of tests on design, engineering, operability, production time and cost. . This is an important step for the development of the Space Launch System to move to the new phase of model design and testing.

The new generation SLS rocket system is developed by NASA to launch the Orion spacecraft and other unmanned spacecraft, in future missions of low Earth orbit. In addition, SLS is also designed to serve other space exploration purposes, such as bringing astronauts to meteorites or Mars.

'The new generation SLS heavy-duty boosters will help explorers out of our current limits, to explore further targets such as meteorites, Mars and onion moons. This planet or even explores along our Solar System , 'said William Gerstenmaier, deputy director of NASA's exploration and exploration activities, on Live Science.

The SLS boosters, designed with a three-story press, will be NASA's most powerful rocket after completion, surpassing the used Saturn V boosters to bring astronauts to the Moon in the program. Apollo before

With superior power, SLS boosters are capable of carrying at least 70 tons of goods and equipment, but NASA hopes to lift SLS's tonnage to 130 tons in the upgraded version. It is expected that the production cost of the first model of SLS boosters will be about $ 10 billion and the missile will be launched for the first time in 2017.