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NASA Space Technology Lee BegMar 21, 2024A check version of the SLS (Space Open System) rocket’s payload adapter is ready for evaluate, marking a serious milestone on the spin to the hardware’s debut on NASA’s Artemis IV mission.Made from two metal rings and eight composite panels, the cone-fashioned payload adapter will be allotment of the SLS Block 1B configuration and housed within the current stage adapter atop the rocket’s more extremely efficient in-area stage, known as the exploration upper stage. The payload adapter is an evolution from the Orion stage adapter damaged-down in the Block 1 configuration of the fundamental three Artemis missions that sits at the topmost allotment of the rocket and helps connect the rocket and spacecraft.“Like the Orion stage adapter and the open automobile stage adapter damaged-down for the fundamental three SLS...