SLS core stage successfully completes 8-minute static fire test
NASA and Boeing today successfully completed a full 8-minute static fire test of the core stage of its first SLS rocket.
This was their second attempt, the first terminating prematurely after about one minute in January.
They must now analyze the test to make sure all went well. If it did, they then must figure out how long it will take to get the stage prepped and shipped to Florida and then prepped for launch. The schedule presently calls for a November launch. It is expected that date will be delayed, anywhere from one to three months.
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NASA and Boeing today successfully completed a full 8-minute static fire test of the core stage of its first SLS rocket.
This was their second attempt, the first terminating prematurely after about one minute in January.
They must now analyze the test to make sure all went well. If it did, they then must figure out how long it will take to get the stage prepped and shipped to Florida and then prepped for launch. The schedule presently calls for a November launch. It is expected that date will be delayed, anywhere from one to three months.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Speaking of sls, former senator Nelson will be nominated tomorrow for the position of nasa administrator
I’ll toss this in here…
How Amateur Radio Fans Decoded SpaceX’s Telemetry & Engineering Video
Scott Manley 3-15-21
https://youtu.be/74_N163HyhA
9:40
Thanks Wayne!
Been using those RTL-SDRs for years now. Depending on the software used they work well as a receiver and a poor-man’s spectrum analyzer. A couple years ago there was an article in the AMSAT Journal (Amateur Radio Satellite) on making a receiver project to decode telemetry from ham radio satellites using these RTL-SDRs. Looks like a couple hams decided to point it at all objects in sky. By the way the project cost less than $60 in parts.
73,
Jay
Sam: perfect. What better way to accelerate NASA’s HSF plunge into irrelevance.
I say this not gladly, but sadly.
There was a raging fire just above one of the engine bells early on. The camera operators stopped going to that camera after minute two or so. I was waiting for the whole thing to blow apart spectacularly but someone upstairs must have thought that NASA has had enough and gave them a pass.
I’ve heard some say that development would have been eased with 3 or 6 engines…but the Energiya 4 was used. Marshall almost got its RD-0120 engines before the end of the thaw. Glushko hated hydrogen-and yet this channel-wall engine wound up easier than the Zenit style strap-ons. Same with the way M-10was headed. The Ares V was to be ten meters wide and use RS-68s with much fewer parts-then Obama killed it and new spacers join him in trying to destroy hydrogen infrastructure. Ironic. I think Musk should make the scaled up larger Super-Heavy capable of lofting a modified SLS with air start. This Super-Heavy II should accept solids to have the strength to put Orion hulls in Orbit for nuke-pulse units to be added later.