Engineering:List of Space Launch System launches

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Short description: List of launches of the Space Launch System rocket, including planned and proposed launches


Configurations of the Space Launch System – Block 1 with the ICPS, Block 1B with the EUS, and Block 2 with upgraded boosters and larger payload fairing.

(As of January 2022), the Space Launch System (SLS) – a Shuttle-derived, super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle – has conducted one successful launch, and a further four have been officially scheduled.[1] All flights on the current launch manifest are for the Artemis program, a human spaceflight project aimed at establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon. The flights will launch from the vehicle's dedicated pad at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B). The first three flights use the Block 1 configuration with a modified Delta Cryogenic Second Stage known as the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS). The Block 1B configuration with the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) will be used starting from the fourth flight.[2]

Launches

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Proposed launches

Later Artemis missions

In early 2019, then-Associate Administrator for Human Exploration William H. Gerstenmaier drafted a proposal for three more launches of SLS Block 1B launch vehicles beyond Artemis 5 in support of the Artemis program. These include two crewed launches of the Orion spacecraft.[3][4]

Non-Artemis missions

In 2012, Skylab II was proposed by an engineer working with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. It would use the EUS hydrogen tank to build a 21st-century version of Skylab.[5][6][7]

SLS was considered as a potential launch vehicle for the proposed Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) space telescope, which will have a main segmented mirror between 8 and 16 meters in diameter,[8] making it 300 times more powerful than Hubble Space Telescope.[9] It would be deployed at the Earth-Sun L2 point in 2035.[8][10][11]

Proposals by Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Space Systems Loral, and Nanoracks to build the Deep Space Habitat – a spacecraft with a large enough living space for humans to travel to destinations such as Mars, near Earth asteroids, or cislunar space – all envisioned a launch aboard an SLS vehicle.[12]

The proposed Europa Lander, formerly part of the Europa Clipper mission, was proposed to be launched aboard an SLS in the mid-2010s.[13] The joint NASA-ESA Titan Saturn System Mission proposal envisioned the SLS as an option for launch.[14][15] On 10 February 2021, it was announced that Europa Clipper would not launch aboard an SLS.[16] In July 2021, NASA booked a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for Europa Clipper at a price of $178 million.[17] In addition to being much cheaper to launch, the Europa Clipper spacecraft would not need expensive structural modification to handle vibrational loads caused by the SLS's solid rocket boosters. The total cost savings was estimated at US$2 billion, but Europa Clipper will need three years longer to reach Jupiter on account of the smaller Falcon Heavy launcher.[18]

The SLS was proposed by Boeing as a launch vehicle for a Uranus probe concept developed by NASA. The rocket would "deliver a small payload into orbit around Uranus and a shallow probe into the planet's atmosphere". The mission would study the Uranian atmosphere, magnetic and thermal characteristics, gravitational harmonics, as well as do flybys of Uranian moons.[10][19] In addition, a 2017 study suggested that a single SLS Block 1B launch vehicle could launch two spacecraft, one to each ice giant, with launch dates suggested from 2024 to 2037 followed by a four-year transit time.[20] Updated versions of the proposal recommend using a Falcon Heavy instead of SLS.[21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lueders, Kathryn; Free, Jim (18 January 2022). "NASA Advisory Council HEO Committee Public Meeting". NAC/HEO CMTE 2022. NASA. p. 16. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/1-18-2022_heo-integrated-nac_lueders-free1.pdf. Retrieved 20 January 2022. 
  2. ↑ Foust, Jeff (20 January 2022). "NASA foresees gap in lunar landings after Artemis 3". SpaceNews. https://spacenews.com/nasa-foresees-gap-in-lunar-landings-after-artemis-3/. 
  3. ↑ Berger, Eric (20 May 2019). "NASA's full Artemis plan revealed: 37 launches and a lunar outpost". Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/nasas-full-artemis-plan-revealed-37-launches-and-a-lunar-outpost/. "NASA's "notional" plan for a human return to the Moon by 2024, and an outpost by 2028." 
  4. ↑ Foust, Jeff (24 May 2019). "NASA Has a Full Plate of Lunar Missions Before Astronauts Can Return to Moon". Space.com. https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-missions-before-2024.html. "A NASA infographic shows the proposed timeline for landing astronauts on the moon in 2024 and building a sustained human presence on the lunar surface and in orbit by 2028. [...] After Artemis 3, NASA would launch four additional crewed missions to the lunar surface between 2025 and 2028." 
  5. ↑ Markus Hammonds (April 14, 2013). "Skylab II:Living Beyond the Dark Side of the Moon". Discovery. http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/skylab-ii-living-beyond-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-130414.htm. 
  6. ↑ "Deep Space Habitat module concepts outlined for BEO exploration". NASASpaceFlight.com. 30 March 2012. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/03/dsh-module-concepts-outlined-beo-exploration/. 
  7. ↑ Frank Morring Jr. (October 22, 2012). "NASA Deep-Space Program Gaining Focus". Aviation Week & Space Technology. http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_10_22_2012_p34-507657.xml. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 SLS Launched Missions Concept Studies for LUVOIR Mission SPIE Optics + Photonics 2015; August 9-13, 2015; San Diego, California; UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts VII; August 9-10, 2015; San Diego, California; August 9, 2015
  9. ↑ The Space Launch System—the most powerful rocket ever built Universe Today, published by PhysOrg July 31, 2017
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chris Gebhardt (November 20, 2013). "New SLS mission options explored via new Large Upper Stage". NASASpaceFlight.com. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/new-sls-options-new-large-upper-stage. 
  11. ↑ Scoles, Sarah (March 30, 2016). "NASA Considers Its Next Flagship Space Telescope". Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-considers-its-next-flagship-space-telescope/. 
  12. ↑ Boeing's deep space habitat could be home for Mars astronauts Mariella Moon, Engadget April 4, 2017
  13. ↑ JPL moves ahead with Mars and Europa missions despite funding uncertainty Jeff Foust July 18, 2017
  14. ↑ "Archived copy". https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Creech_SLS_Deep_Space.pdf.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  15. ↑ NASA's Space Launch System: A Capability for Deep Space Exploration Stephen Creech, Space Launch System (SLS) Program This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  16. ↑ NASA to use commercial launch vehicle for Europa Clipper Jeff Foust February 10, 2021
  17. ↑ Potter, Sean (23 July 2021). "NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission" (Press release). NASA. Retrieved 23 July 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  18. ↑ "SpaceX to launch the Europa Clipper mission for a bargain price". Ars Technica. July 23, 2021. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/spacex-to-launch-the-europa-clipper-mission-for-a-bargain-price. 
  19. ↑ "Space Launch System Exploration, Science, Security". http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/defense-space/space/sls/docs/sls_mission_booklet_jan_2014.pdf. 
  20. ↑ Ice Giants - Pre-decadal Survey NASA, 2017 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  21. ↑ Simon, Amy; Nimmo, Francis; Anderson, Richard C. (7 June 2021). "Journey to an Ice Giant System: Uranus Orbiter and Probe". Planetary Mission Concept for the 2023–2032 Planetary Science Decadal Survey (NASA). https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qlun6EF0v472eOMXXokHxa6B2tBLNkdv. Retrieved 1 May 2022. 

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