NASA reveals images testing Space Launch System rocket

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NASA has unveiled photographs of the hydrogen tank that will power its Space Launch System rocket.

According to NASA, the hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System rocket was loaded into a test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on Jan. 14.

Hydraulic cylinders installed in the test stand will push and pull the tank, mimicking the pressure it would have to withstand during lift-off and flight. The SLS rocket tank is a 61-meter tall liquid hydrogen tank and is eight-meters in diameter. Its design allows it to hold over two million liters of supercooled liquid nitrogen.

The tank will feed the rocket's RS-25 engines with cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen producing almost nine million pounds of maximum thrust. The launch vehicle is designed to carry NASA's Orion spacecraft as well as other cargo into deep space for exploration.

The SLS rocket is one of the most powerful rockets designed by NASA. It will boost Orion at a speed of almost 40,000 kilometers per hour out of Earth's orbit. That's roughly, 11,000 kilometers per hour faster than the International Space Station travels around Earth.

RUNDOWN SHOWS:
1. NASA's Space Launch System rocket tank tests
2. Dimensions and capacity of Space Launch System tank
3. Tank feeding Space Launch System rocket engines
4. Space Launch System rocket launching Orion to space

VOICEOVER (in English):
"The hydrogen tank for NASA's Space Launch System rocket was loaded into a test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on Jan. 14."

"According to a NASA report, hydraulic cylinders installed in the test stand will push and pull the tank, mimicking the pressure it would have to withstand during lift-off and flight."

"The SLS rocket tank is a 61-meter tall liquid hydrogen tank and is eight-meters in diameter. Its design allows it to hold over two million liters of supercooled liquid nitrogen."

"The tank will feed the rocket's RS-25 engines with cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen producing almost nine million pounds of maximum thrust."

"The launch vehicle is designed to carry NASA's Orion spacecraft as well as other cargo into deep space for exploration."

SOURCES:
NASA, V3

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