Looks like they scrubbed the moon mission until Friday

[NoBodyImportant]

That sucks,  with the storms and engine number 3 leaking to much fuel it’s scrubbed.  Apparently they engines are supposed to leak fuel until they heat up or so say the engineers.  Sounds bad to me.  This mission is carrying three human analogs to the moon and back to measure the G forces and other life preserving equipment.  Going to try again on Friday. 

 

Edited August 29, 2022 by NoBodyImportant

[miki]

Shame, lets hope they find the problem and get it sorted ...

[ditchman]

now if that was England and our space shuttle had a crack in the window....they would have sent some ole boy up a tall ladder in a brown stock coat with a pipe in his mouth and mended the window with a bin bag and some gaffer tape (duck tape).............and kept to the launch window 

[mel b3]

1 minute ago, ditchman said:

now if that was England and our space shuttle had a crack in the window....they would have sent some ole boy up a tall ladder in a brown stock coat with a pipe in his mouth and mended the window with a bin bag and some gaffer tape (duck tape).............and kept to the launch window 

I'm smiling because you're right 😄.

[wymberley]

9 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

I'm smiling because you're right 😄.

They learned a terrible lesson on28th January 1986. What price a simple rubber 'O' ring?

[ditchman]

i see our humongeous interstellar aircraft carrier has broke down.....they have sent divers down (proberly with a hammer and some glue)..........this boat has been loads of problems ...water leaks ...power cuts ............

reminds me of Landrover ...looks good but a nightmare to own.................there must be a green oval on it somewhere..

they are going to send for them folk on the little blue planet to fix it ..."The Clangers)....

Edited August 29, 2022 by ditchman

[NoBodyImportant]

The fact something is designed to leak until heated up is what baffles my mind. 

[ditchman]

5 minutes ago, NoBodyImportant said:

The fact something is designed to leak until heated up is what baffles my mind. 

Cat engines are just so....the pistons are designed to fit the bores at STP....

i think they are making things too complicated on this moon stuff

[old man]

59 minutes ago, ditchman said:

now if that was England and our space shuttle had a crack in the window....they would have sent some ole boy up a tall ladder in a brown stock coat with a pipe in his mouth and mended the window with a bin bag and some gaffer tape (duck tape).............and kept to the launch window 

But he is currently under our broken ship?

Why if the previous ones worked would you make something else for the job?

Edited August 29, 2022 by old man

[GingerCat]

13 minutes ago, NoBodyImportant said:

The fact something is designed to leak until heated up is what baffles my mind. 

Same as the blackbird. Would leak avgas all over the place till warm and expanded. 

[old man]

2 minutes ago, GingerCat said:

Same as the blackbird. Would leak avgas all over the place till warm and expanded. 

Yep.

[wisdom]

When the POW was steaming out of Portsmouth there was no wash at all from the starboard prop.

[ditchman]

6 minutes ago, wisdom said:

When the POW was steaming out of Portsmouth there was no wash at all from the starboard prop.

proberly a bunch of Lithuainians nicked the propellar under cover of darkness

[Jaymo]

1 hour ago, ditchman said:

now if that was England and our space shuttle had a crack in the window....they would have sent some ole boy up a tall ladder in a brown stock coat with a pipe in his mouth and mended the window with a bin bag and some gaffer tape (duck tape).............and kept to the launch window 

You say this in jest, but the amount of Speedtape affixed to the stuff we fly. 

[wymberley]

51 minutes ago, GingerCat said:

Same as the blackbird. Would leak avgas all over the place till warm and expanded. 

Anybody?

[NoBodyImportant]

2 hours ago, GingerCat said:

Same as the blackbird. Would leak avgas all over the place till warm and expanded. 

Just seems like a bad idea to have gas leaking out of something that shoots fire out the back. 

[NoBodyImportant]

Some new information, apparently it wasn’t bleeding enough fuel.

Currently, the issue doesn't suggest an engine problem, but rather an issue within the bleed system that is used to cool the engine, he said.

"We need the engine to be at the cryogenically cool temperature such that when it starts, it's not shocked with all the cold fuel that flows through it. So we needed a little extra time to assess that," Sarafin said.

The team also saw an issue with the vent valve at the inner tank and the combination of issues convinced the team they needed more time, Sarafin said.

If a substantial fix is needed the team may require more time to address it and roll the rocket stack back into the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, a process that takes 3 1/2 days.

The launch team still needs to troubleshoot the engine issue and will keep the rocket in its current configuration to gather data and assess what needs to be done. Both the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft remain stable, according to NASA officials.

Prior to the scrub, the countdown was extended into an unplanned hold as the launch team worked on a troubleshooting plan for one of the rocket's four engines. 

That's because the launch team discovered an issue with an engine bleed in engine #3. Attempts to reconfigure it were unsuccessful. 

During engine bleeds, hydrogen is cycled through the engine to condition it for launch. Three of the four engines are performing as expected, but engine #3 experienced an issue.

[GingerCat]

11 hours ago, NoBodyImportant said:

Just seems like a bad idea to have gas leaking out of something that shoots fire out the back. 

It don't do it when it's screaming along, soon stretches and seals up. I'm glad they take this into account. 

[old man]

13 hours ago, ditchman said:

proberly a bunch of Lithuainians nicked the propellar under cover of darkness

With your spanner?

[Boybrit]

Sat for three days on the beach in Titusville with my sister back in 1981 to watch the first shuttle launch along with a million other Chevrolet owners it seemed, very impressive that was too.

[London Best]

4 minutes ago, Boybrit said:

Sat for three days on the beach in Titusville with my sister back in 1981 to watch the first shuttle launch along with a million other Chevrolet owners it seemed, very impressive that was too.

I once managed to watch a shuttle land but can’t remember what year.

[discobob]

On 29/08/2022 at 21:04, NoBodyImportant said:

If a substantial fix is needed the team may require more time to address it and roll the rocket stack back into the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, a process that takes 3 1/2 days.

They should get a hire car to do it - it would be much faster 😆