Supporting Exploration Upper Stage Preparation

A pair of umbilical support structures arrive by barge at NASA’s Stennis Space Center on Sept. 26, part of the site’s preparations for future testing of the agency’s new Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) for future flights of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The structures arrived from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans via the unique NASA Stennis seven-and-a-half-mile canal system. The umbilical support structures will be installed on the Thad Cochran (B-2) Test Stand to support testing of the new EUS unit, which will enable NASA to carry larger payloads on Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. A team from NASA Stennis and Jacobs Technology led the design of the umbilical support structures, while a team from Syncom Space Services at NASA Michoud completed the fabrication.