Sep 23, 2023 · The SLS booster is the largest, most powerful solid propellant booster ever built for flight. Standing 17 stories tall and burning approximately six tons of propellant every second, each booster generates more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial airliners.

ARTEMIS REFERENCE GUIDE Solid Rocket Boosters The SLS twin solid rocket boosters, manufactured by lead booster contractor Northrop Grumman, provide more than 75% of the total SLS thrust at launch and for the first two minutes of flight. The SLS booster design is based on the space shuttle boosters, with an additional propellant segment

For Artemis I, the SLS core stage and boosters inserted the ICPS and Orion into an initial Earth orbit at a velocity of 25,579.86 ft./sec. (7,796.74 m/sec.) – 6.58 ft./sec. (2.01 m/sec.) off nominal – a difference of 0.026%.

Feb 3, 2022 · It weighs 5.75 million pounds and produces 8.8 million pounds of thrust during launch and ascent with the power of four RS-25 engines and two solid rocket motors, commonly called boosters. Each booster is equipped with an ignition motor that ignites the solid propellant.

The SLS has two solid rocket boosters that burn approximately six tons of solid propellant each second to help lift the enormous rocket off the launch pad and send it soaring to space. Their job is finished in two minutes. Learn More

Nov 16, 2022 · Northrop Grumman supplied rocket propulsion for NASA’s Apollo and Space Shuttle programs and developed the five-segment SLS solid rocket booster based on the flight-proven design of the space shuttle boosters. The company will provide ongoing support for SLS and the Artemis missions through 2031.

Dec 1, 2022 · Like the Space Shuttle’s first flight in 1981, at the moment of ignition, the twin five-segment SRBs on Artemis I became the most-powerful solid rockets ever flown, and their performance looks to...

Nov 15, 2022 · The Artemis I mission’s rocket engines and boosters have direct ties to each of the shuttles and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. The Space Launch System, as it is formally called, is scheduled to blast an uncrewed Orion …

Feb 8, 2021 · The twin solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) are being stacked on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The boosters will power SLS on the Artemis I mission.

Northrop Grumman supports NASA's Artemis program by providing the solid rocket boosters for the NASA Space Launch System and the abort motor and attitude control motor for the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System.