NASA managers said Monday they are ready to check engineers' work fixing a fuel leak on the Artemis I rocket, which scrubbed the space agency's most recent launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA managers said Monday they are ready to check engineers' work fixing a fuel leak on the Artemis I rocket, which scrubbed the space agency's most recent launch attempt of the mega moon rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SLS has also experienced hydrogen leaks during wet dress rehearsal tests and a small leak during the first launch attempt. "The reason where 4% is set is its kind of the flammability of hydrogen and air. So that's where you start to enter a certain amount of risk of flammability," Parsons said, adding, "It's really a relatively conservative limit."
NASA's Deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, Tom Whitmeyer, explained unlike liquid oxygen, which is "pumped" into the rocket, hydrogen requires pressure to move the light molecules. During the test, both the SLS core and upper stages will go through all three phases of fueling, including slow fill, fast fill and replenish.
A backup window on Oct. 2 is under review by the Space Force, which manages the Eastern launch range.
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