# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-07-05T16:01:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Getting wired for testing ⁣☕
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NASA_Marshall teams are testing and configuring the flight software for the Space Launch System that will launch the Artemis II astronauts on their journey around the Moon.⁣
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Inside the SLS Software Development Facility (SDF) at Marshall, software engineers recently completed the first part of formal qualification testing for the Artemis II SLS flight software. The SLS rocket’s flight software acts as the “brains” of the rocket, activating 48 hours prior to launch to command all that power and energy for the first eight minutes of the mission through the separation of its in-space propulsion stage.⁣
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The rocket’s flight software consists of approximately 50,000 lines of code. To test the SLS computer systems and flight software ahead of launch, a team inside the SDF simulates a series of normal and off-nominal SLS rocket and environmental scenarios, called test cases. By the conclusion of the two-week test period on May 15, engineers had completed 179 test procedures with approximately 58,000 test cases. The second and final phase of formal qualification testing for the SLS flight software in the SDF is set to begin in July.⁣
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By the time the SLS rocket launches Artemis II, flight software engineers will have “flown” the SLS mission more than 100,000 times within the various SLS avionics and software development and test facilities.⁣
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Image description: A software engineer evaluates the flight software and avionics configuration inside the Systems Integration Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The engineer is wearing green latex gloves and safety glasses while standing on a crane. He is surrounded by walls covered in bundles of wires.⁣
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Image credit: NASA/Brandon Hancock⁣
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