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
High-Resolution Photo Gallery & Media
2 photos & renders of Space Launch System (Block 1)
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LiftoffSpace 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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LiftoffSLS 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
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.