What will change when NASA finally resumes its in-house space missions? 🤔 engineering
, which will see an uncrewed Orion spacecraft launched by SLS before making a trip around the Moon. The launch, scheduled for the summer, will kickstart NASA's Artemis project, which will send astronauts around the Moon with Artemis 2, before carrying out a crewed Moon landing with Artemis 3., the agency explains that CT-2 is roughly the size of a baseball infield, and it weighs 2.9 million kilograms. It moves at a top speed of 1 mph when fully loaded and 2 mph when it's unloaded.
NASA recently upgraded the CT-2, which is over 50 years old, in preparation for the Artemis missions. The agency said it replaced the vehicle's roller assemblies and bearings and that the upgraded versions it added allow for a greater load capacity. The upgrades also include the addition of two new Cummin 1,500-kilowatt AC generators, new parking and service brakes, control system modifications, and a new paint job for CT-2.
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