NASA has fired up the avionics of the Artemis I core stage ahead of tomorrow's planned redo of the prematurely terminated hotfire test.
The milestone came a fortnight after engineers completed the assembly of the twin solid rocket boosters atop the mobile launcher currently sat inside Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building. The first of the 10 booster segments was placed back in November last year, and the final nose assembly was dropped into place on 2 March.
Those boosters are, however, missing a key ingredient: the SLS core stage, which continues to languish on the B-2 test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Once managers give the nod on the test day, the ..
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