Being fired-up tonight. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54583588 714 tonnes of thrust and it just blows out steam.
The gulf coast has notoriously low humidity, so NASA is just doing their part to add a bit of water vapor to the atmosphere.
go for fire t-30 Edit: fired for a bit over a minute and then shut down. Not ideal, but at least they didn't blow it up.
the deer are just like WHAT THE F)£"$ IS THAT !! any idea why they didnt run the full test it was supposed to be 8 mins wasnt it ?
It appears NASA are still working on that, I suppose a sensor must have picked something up. They said during the last few minutes before firing they wanted to go for 8 minutes but, they needed 4 minutes to gather all the data they needed.
Something bad happened to Engine 4. The before and after pictures show the thermal blanket around the engine blown out and the engine controller reported a 'major component failure' leading to shutdown. It might take a few days before the vehicle can be safely approached, so we're just gonna have to be patient.
More up to date information than I found earlier. Also, this from CNN; "During a Saturday night news conference, John Honeycutt, the SLS program manager, said NASA officials will go over the data gathered in the test to identify the issue. "What we learned was -- is that we didn't have the pressurization valve modelled appropriately," Honeycutt said."
Apparently Engine 4 was not the issue: Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date
