Dec 2, 2024 · Mobile launcher 1 is the ground structure that is used to assemble, process, and launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for missions to deep space destinations, such as the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

The mobile launcher 1 (ML1) is the ground structure used to assemble, process, and launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket (Block 1 configuration) and Orion spacecraft from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for missions to deep space destinations such as the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

In 2021, NASA began rolling out Mobile Launch Platform-1 on Crawler transporter-2 with a concrete ballast on the top to condition the crawlerway to handle the combined weight of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft in the future. [11]

Sep 5, 2023 · As construction begins to assemble the Mobile Launcher-2 (ML-2) for Artemis IV, Mobile Launcher-1 (ML-1) secured its position once again back on top of Launch Complex 39B for pad validation and...

Oct 17, 2024 · Since Artemis I, EGS continues to improve facilities and develop capabilities for future Artemis missions, such as the ML2, which will play a critical role for the Artemis IV launch. A House report includes a provision for GAO to review …

NASA currently plans to utilize ML-1 to launch Artemis I, Artemis II, Artemis III, and possibly a science mission to a moon of Jupiter. The Agency is also developing a second mobile launcher (ML-2) for future, larger variants of the SLS.

The mobile launcher (ML) is the ground platform structure that will launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft on Arte-mis missions to the Moon and on to Mars. The ML is designed to support the assembly, testing, check-out and servicing of the rocket, as well as transfer it and Orion to the launch pad.

Oct 31, 2020 · NASA’s Mobile Launcher-1, or ML-1, has rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after completing a series of tests at Launch Complex-39B (LC-39B). This marks the last trip to the launch pad...

Dec 8, 2022 · Mobile Launcher 1 (ML1, or ML) is on its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center after successfully launching the SLS rocket and Orion/European Service...

ML1 will launch the first three mis-sions of the agency’s Artemis program, including the mission that will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon. During preparations for launch, the crawler-trans-porter will pick up and move ML1 into High …