Because this cannot be accommodated by the Mobile Launcher-1, a new launch tower is needed. (That's right—NASA is going to spend $1 billion for some launch infrastructure, Mobile Launcher-1 ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...

NASA's problems with the mobile launch tower that will support a larger version of its Space Launch System rocket are getting worse rather than better. According to a new report from NASA's inspector ...

An upgraded mobile launch tower for the SLS has also been plagued by cost overruns and schedule slippage. Notably, an element that isn't contributing to delays is the SLS , which performed very ...

The SLS and its mobile launch platform emerge from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center March 17. ... including some that hit lightning protection towers surrounding the pad.

During a press briefing on Friday, Sarafin admitted that the mobile launch tower did incur some damage as a result of the launch, which produced temperatures in excess of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Mobile launcher 1, carried by the crawler-transporter 2, rolls out from its park site location to Launch Pad 39-B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 16, 2023.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off on November 16, 2022, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 25.5-day journey to the Moon and back.The launch of the Artemis program’s first ...

In this 25-second exposure a vehicle passes NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard atop the mobile launcher as it is rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building ...

These reconfigured platforms with the towers removed were given new names—Mobile Launch Platforms (MLP). Two towers were fixed instead to pads 39A and 39B. The three MLPs provided the support ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...