RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted September 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2022 Today we have back on the Artemis launch to dress rehearse the moon landing after 50 years,lets hope we get a good outcome today. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted September 3, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2022 Scrubbed again due to a fuel leak during loading apparently. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Smith Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 (edited) Next attempt was to be on Monday, Labor Day but probably will not be attempted So then then back to the VAB! Edited September 3, 2022 by Jeff Smith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 3, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3, 2022 Might be good to go sometime next week if the seal can be made to work on the pad; the fuel in question is liquid hydrogen, not the easiest stuff to deal with. If not the whole caboodle will have to be moved back off the pad, and we will be looking at several weeks. But it’s not a race and NASA have learned the safety first lesson the hard way… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted September 5, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2022 If its a return to the Vehicle Assembly Building i guess we might well see it beaten by the Spacex starship and booster from Boca Chica,time will tell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted September 5, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2022 I confess I still find the whole Boca Chica thing a bit strange. How can you build a vehicle expected to withstand hypersonic re-entry in a field? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 5 hours ago, Flying Pig said: I confess I still find the whole Boca Chica thing a bit strange. How can you build a vehicle expected to withstand hypersonic re-entry in a field? Why? Cape Canaveral is just as exposed. They are both on the coast, and I think Boca Chica is about as far south as you can get and still be in the continental US, Miami and the Florida Keys are further south but not as suitable, too many people getting in the way. Regards, John P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted September 5, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2022 2 hours ago, jpendle said: Why? Cape Canaveral is just as exposed. They are both on the coast, and I think Boca Chica is about as far south as you can get and still be in the continental US, Miami and the Florida Keys are further south but not as suitable, too many people getting in the way. Regards, John P Because afaik rockets are not actually manufactured at Cape Canaveral, at most assembled from stages built elsewhere. Spacex's own Falcon 9 boosters are manufactured in a proper aerospace facility, as have been all supersonic and hypersonic vehicles previously flown. Spaceship has to re-enter from orbital speeds and ultimately from an interplanetary trajectory, which will tesult in very serious aerodynamic and mechanical loads, possibly higher than any previous vehicle has had to withstand. These are the kind of conditions where even the smallest flaw in a structure can lead to its destruction. How can you build to the necessary standards outside a well-controlled environment? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpendle Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Flying Pig said: Spacex's own Falcon 9 boosters are manufactured in a proper aerospace facility If you consider a 1930's aircraft factory with the main door open to the elements a "proper" facility then yes. I've been there when SpaceX engineers were attaching a rocket engine to a Falcon 9 booster stage. Men, and a couple of women, in jeans and T-shirts listening to extremely loud music while they worked! Regards, John P 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted September 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2022 On 03/09/2022 at 22:29, The Johnster said: Might be good to go sometime next week if the seal can be made to work on the pad; the fuel in question is liquid hydrogen, not the easiest stuff to deal with. If not the whole caboodle will have to be moved back off the pad, and we will be looking at several weeks. But it’s not a race and NASA have learned the safety first lesson the hard way… Overheard on the launch pad.. "Seal? Surely you meant Walrus? "Never mind, the Spandex rocket is on standby"..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted September 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2022 Sorry, but off topic, does anyone know if the USA has hypersonic nukes?? Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 The USA has weapons which are beyond imagination. Brit15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted September 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2022 21 hours ago, ikks said: Sorry, but off topic, does anyone know if the USA has hypersonic nukes?? Mike You mean like the Trident and Minuteman that they've had for decades? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted September 9, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2022 The Boca Chica site has high bays where the vehicles are built in and run the mile or so to the launch areas,there is a huge new assembly building too in the throws of construction, Yesterday they tested the 6 ship engine together,its all just test articals but non have been built in a field? theres daily updates on the NASA spaceflight site and live cameras on Lab Padre site,if you look at there steams you can see the build system. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted September 9, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2022 https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/08/repair-work-underway-preparations-continue-for-next-launch-opportunity/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted September 10, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2022 14 hours ago, 57xx said: You mean like the Trident and Minuteman that they've had for decades? I don't know, that's why I asked!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium ERIC ALLTORQUE Posted September 19, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2022 Big day at Boca Chica as booster seven fires seven raptor two engines for first time, returning now to be checked and modified and booster eight to be tested next by a tweet from Elon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted September 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2022 Did anyone else watch the live video (well, about 1 fps but considering that was a live transmission from a spacecraft that's pretty good) of DART impacting the asteroid Dimorphos last night? Impressive stuff, as was the monitoring from ground-based telescopes that can only see the pair of asteroids as a point (the size on pictures just being from the brightness), but could easily see the rapidly-expanding debris cloud. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 12 minutes ago, Reorte said: Impressive stuff, as was the monitoring from ground-based telescopes that can only see the pair of asteroids as a point (the size on pictures just being from the brightness), but could easily see the rapidly-expanding debris cloud. There are images from the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids, (LICIACube, which was a DART payload and) drafting behind DART by 55km. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 27, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 27, 2022 More vanity projects for countries showing off to their rivals, when they can't even stop this planet going to pot. The idea that we can colonize other planets to any extent beyond science bases is fantasy. Hoping we can find another home for the world's population when we have screwed this one is totally unrealistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 3 minutes ago, phil_sutters said: The idea that we can colonize other planets to any extent beyond science bases is fantasy. DART is not a colonization project, but an attempt to demonstrate the potential feasibility of saving the earthly population from a future asteroid collision. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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