Posted on 09/03/2022 1:11:37 PM PDT by Pollard
NASA's star-crossed Space Launch System moon rocket was grounded Saturday for the second time in five days after engineers tried and failed to remotely stop a hydrogen leak in a quick-disconnect fitting where propellants are fed into the giant booster's first stage.
Engineers made three attempts to properly "seat" a suspect seal in the 8-inch fitting, but none of them worked and after a "no-go" recommendation from the engineers working the problem, Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson called off the countdown at 11:17 a.m. EDT.
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I’m betting it won’t happen this year, now…
Proud to say that I was working at Manned Spacecraft Center (later Johnson) during the Apollo program. We’ve been there. Nothing there. No reason to go back. Enormous waste of money.
99% likely that's what it is. I think they are purposely not using that term.
There is no way to reliably fix that issue other than de-mating the fitting, see what is wrong, replace any compromised metallic parts, replace the o-ring, re-mate the fitting, and test it under a pressure differential at or near the operating temperature. There may be all kinds of other stuff you need to disassemble to even get access to this and all of that has to be reassembled and verified. Could take a while and will likely require return to the VAB.
Anyone else flying helicopter on Mars?
NASA anything government is ALWAYS screwed up, Musk would have had this thing up!
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