User:Craigboy/Exploration Mission 1
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Exploration Mission 1 or EM-1 (previously known as Space Launch System 1 or SLS-1) is the first planned flight of the Space Launch System and the second uncrewed test flight of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Set to launch in 2017 from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, the Orion spacecraft would perform a circumlunar trajectory during the seven day mission.[3][5] The Block 1 version of SLS used on this mission will consist of two five-segment Solid Rocket Boosters, four RS-25D engines built for the Space Shuttle program and a Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.[5] EM-1 is intended to demonstrate the integrated spacecraft systems prior to a crewed flight and demonstrate a high speed reentry (11 km/s) on Orion's thermal protection system.[5]
Operator | NASA/ESA |
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Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Orion MPCV |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | December 17, 2017[1] |
Rocket | SLS Block 1[2] |
Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B[3] |
End of mission | |
Landing site | Pacific Ocean[4] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Circumlunar |
Flyby of the Moon | |
Closest approach | December 2017 |
Distance | TBD |
Beyond Low Earth Orbit Program |