It's leaking hydrogen !
keep filling !
NASA engineers had to work fast to avoid another leak affecting the latest Artemis dry run, just hours after an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) via the Cygnus freighter was aborted following a few short seconds. The US space agency on Monday rolled the huge Artemis I stack back to its Florida launchpad …
..... SLS is just not going well. I really don't think FiTyMi is appropriate for rocket testing. Although if this is *just* a (seal size/damage/state) issue I'll buy that they will have it fixed for the next run. At least on this launch it wont have humans aboard. (Or monkeys for that matter, but....)
Indeed. And even more so because the leak was external to the rocket in a connector seal on an umbilical. I could even see this overridden in an actual launch.
When NASA disassembles it they will determine the problem and solution. It may be something as simple as replacing all umbilical gaskets.
I think it's unfortunate that politically Artemis will continue. But this was a win for the program.
Maybe issue t-shirts to NASA/Contractor SLS staff with the Challenger Space Shuttle on the front and the Columbia Space Shuttle on the back, to focus the minds.
Because it sounds like there is a lot of pressure to cut corners again, reminiscent of 1986. We don't need a replay of past events.