SLS Rocket

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 981.1 Hz, 112 cents flat of C6, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

Tap to fire its stages in the order of a real flight.

The Space Launch System, NASA's rocket for the Artemis missions back to the Moon, as splats from NASA's 3D model, colored as it flew on Artemis I in November 2022. Its orange core stage burns four RS-25 engines once flown on the Space Shuttle, and two solid rocket boosters give most of the push at liftoff. On top ride the upper stage and the Orion spacecraft under its launch abort system.

Tap to stage it in Artemis I's order, much faster than real: the boosters fall away about two minutes after launch, then the abort tower; the core stage goes about eight and a half minutes in, at orbit; the upper stage then sends Orion toward the Moon, and Orion leaves it. Orion's capsule, hidden in the model, is drawn as a plain cone.

NASA's 3D model of the Space Launch System, cut into its pieces by its profile, colored as it flew on Artemis I, staging in the flight's order, much faster than real.

1. Correct

   The pieces separate in the order of Artemis I: the two boosters, the launch abort system, the core stage, then Orion leaves the upper stage (the ICPS).¹²

   The drive moves each piece at its time on a 12-second clock; the test checks the order and that the boosters fall away to both sides, tilting outward.

2. Close

   The core stage is orange and the boosters, upper stage and Orion white, as on Artemis I.

   tools/sp2-rockets.mjs colors the model's pieces (the printable model has no color).

3. Correct

   The model is NASA's, used under NASA's media guidelines, and carries no logo.³

   The printable model is one untextured solid; the test checks the GLB has no image or texture.

1. 1Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster, NASA
2. 2Artemis I, Wikipedia
3. 3Images and media usage guidelines, NASA

Simplified

Staging that took hours is shown in 12 seconds.

Simplified

The flames are glowing cones, not a simulation of the exhaust.

Simplified

Orion's crew module, hidden under the abort system's fairing in the model, is drawn as a plain cone.

Simplified

The model is simplified to about 48,000 triangles.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.