OperationalNASAFirst Launch: 2022-11-16
Space Launch System (Block 1)
NASA's super heavy-lift launch vehicle for the Artemis program, using Space Shuttle-derived RS-25 engines and solid boosters to send Orion toward the Moon.
SpaceStats Reliability & Flight Record
TOTAL LAUNCHES
2
Orbital missions
SUCCESSFUL
2
0 failures
SUCCESS RATE
100.0%
LANDINGS
0
Expendable Vehicle
NASAFeatured Photography
Space Launch System Artemis I Night Liftoff
NASA / Joel Kowsky
Technical & Propulsion Specifications
Operator: NASAVehicle Dimensions & Mass
- Overall Height
- 98 m
- Body Diameter
- 8.4 m
- Gross Lift-off Mass
- 2,610 t
- Stages Count
- 2
- Fairing Diameter
- 5 m
Stage 1 (Booster)
- Recovery Mode
- Expendable
Stage 2 & Capacities
- LEO Capacity
- 95 t
- TLI (Lunar)
- 27 t
- Cost per Launch
- $2,500,000,000
- LEO Price / kg
- ~$26,316 / kg
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High-Resolution Photo Gallery & Media
5 photos & renders of Space Launch System (Block 1)
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Liftoff2022-11-16Space Launch System Artemis I Night Liftoff
NASA Space Launch System (SLS) lifts off from Launch Complex 39B carrying the uncrewed Orion spacecraft to the Moon.
NASA / Joel Kowsky
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Liftoff2022-11-16SLS Twin Solid Rocket Boosters Ignition
Twin 5-segment solid rocket boosters and 4 RS-25 core engines deliver 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.
NASA / Joel Kowsky
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Pad2022-04-02SLS Mobile Launcher at Pad 39B at Sunset
The 98-meter SLS Block 1 rocket and Mobile Launcher 1 standing on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA / Kim Shiflett
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Rollout2022-03-17Crawler-Transporter 2 Carrying SLS to Pad 39B
NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 transporting the complete SLS Artemis I vehicle from the Vehicle Assembly Building.
NASA / Joel Kowsky
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Space2022-11-21Orion Spacecraft Distant Retrograde Lunar Orbit
Orion spacecraft captured by an optical camera mounted on its solar array wing with the Moon and Earth in the background.
NASA
Source SpaceStats Launch Manifest & Database
0 mission records cataloged in database
No individual manifest entries logged in database for Space Launch System (Block 1).
Summary stats and flight achievements are detailed in the overview above.