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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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.