NASA emituje stalni 24/7 direktan prenos svoje velike rakete Space Launch System (SLS) sa kompleksa Kennedy Space Center na Floridi, što javnosti omogućava da u bilo kom trenutku pogleda Artemis 2 na lansirnoj rampi. Na vrhu SLS-a nalazi se kapsula Orion kojom će troje Amerikanaca i jedan Kanađanin putovati tokom planirane desetodnevne misije oko Meseca.
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Gledanje rakete dok stoji na rampi može biti atraktivno: u pravim trenucima feed će prikazati impresivan 322-foot (oko 98 metara) svemirski brod u prvom planu tokom zalaska ili izlaska sunca, kao i dramatičan noćni profil osvetljenih delova lansirne rampe.
Raspored lansiranja i testovi
Najraniji mogući datum lansiranja misije Artemis 2 pomeren je na nedelju, 8. februar, nakon odlaganja ključnog punjenja gorivom zbog hladnog vremena. NASA je prethodno objavila tri moguća lansirna prozora koja se protežu do 6. aprila. Pre konačnog datuma sledi važan test poznat kao wet dress rehearsal — simulacija odbrojavanja i punjenje SLS-a sa približno 700.000 galona kriogenih pogonskih materijala, koji se potom ispuste. NASA će emitovati i poseban feed tokom samog wet dress rehearsala.
Procedure pre lansiranja
Posle uspešnog wet dress rehearsala, inženjeri će sprovesti flight readiness review — sveobuhvatnu analizu spremnosti leta koja ocenjuje stanje rakete, kapsule i logistiku misije pre konačne odluke o datumu lansiranja.
Posada Artemis 2
- Reid Wiseman (Komandant) — iz Baltimora; poslednji put je leteo 2014. godine na ruskoj Soyuz letelici do Međunarodne svemirske stanice.
- Victor Glover (Pilot) — iz Pomone, Kalifornija; bio je deo SpaceX misije Crew-1 do ISS 2020. godine.
- Christina Koch (Specijalista misije) — iz Grand Rapidsa, Mičigen; nosilac više rekorda NASA-e i učesnica 2019. Soyuz misije ka ISS.
- Jeremy Hansen (Specijalista misije) — astronaut Kanadske svemirske agencije; ovo će mu biti prvi let u svemir.
Ciljevi programa Artemis
Artemis je ambiciozan NASA-in program čiji je cilj povratak ljudi na površinu Meseca prvi put od Apola (1972), uspostavljanje stalne ljudske prisutnosti i izgradnja baze na Južnom polu Meseca. Tamo se očekuje prisustvo leda koji bi mogao da se preradi u vodu i kiseonik, kao i da posluži kao izvor goriva — korak koji će olakšati buduće misije sa ljudskom posadom ka Marsu.
Gde da gledate: Direktan prenos je dostupan na NASA-inim kanalima i specijalnim feedovima za wet dress rehearsal — odlična prilika za posmatranje velikih priprema pre lansiranja.
Autor izvornog teksta: Eric Lagatta / USA TODAY. Kontakt: elagatta@gannett.com
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