>>13780675Eventually, launch readiness will have to be synchronized to the lunar launch windows available for Artemis 1. Not only are there time-critical tasks that need to be performed in the days before the countdown, but the EGS, Orion, and SLS Programs also have flight readiness certification reviews to conduct, followed by ones at the ESD division level, and finally at the agency level.
The programs, division, and agency want to be ready to fly when the hardware is ready and are looking at schedules for conducting the final flight readiness reviews (FRRs) ahead of finally setting a launch date for Artemis 1. Currently, the programs are tentatively working towards the Launch Period 18 opportunity in February.
If the projections for launch readiness were to converge towards the February opportunity, the EGS, Orion, and SLS Programs would hold their program-level review boards in the first part of January, followed by an ESD review at the division level in late January, and, finally, an Agency FRR in early February would be held about a week before the launch period opens. At the end of all those reviews, a launch date would be set following the Agency FRR, but with several tests and milestones still to be completed both in the VAB and out at the launch pad before the ground hardware and the flight vehicle will be ready to fly, those tentative schedule plans are subject to further change.
>yfw Berger was right and all the SLS shills seething at him for his initial report of SLS 2022 launch look like real dumbasses now 
