SSC_2021-03-18_Hot_Fire_B-roll_4_Views

Teams associated with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program conducted a hot fire test of the first SLS core stage on March 18, 2021, on the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center. All four RS-25 engines were fired for a full-duration test, just as during an actual launch. This video reel provides footage from the hot fire, including views from drone and on-stand cameras. The March 18 hot fire culminated a yearlong series of tests on the rocket stage and its integrated systems prior the stage’s launch on the Artemis I mission. Preliminary inspections show the core stage and its four RS-25 engines are in excellent condition following the hot fire test. In anticipation of increased temperature associated with an in-stand test, teams applied extra cork and tape in specific areas. Some of the cork and tape burned during the test, as the in-stand camera views in this video of full-duration test footage show and as was expected. Meanwhile, the drone footage in the video shows the billowing steam cloud, created as the super-hot engine exhaust hits the thousands of gallons of water sprayed to cool the stand’s flame trench. Teams are now refurbishing the stage in preparation for transporting it to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the Artemis I launch.