NASA for fucks sake, SLS fails test.
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3 decades late and billion of dollars overbudget and SLS fails test
During the transmission of Green test SLS 4x RS-25 it can be heard "Got an MCF on Engine 4"
>BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA performed a hotfire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System Jan. 16, but the stage’s four main engines shut down a little more than a minute into a test designed to last eight minutes.
>The core stage ignited its four RS-25 engines at 5:27 p.m. Eastern at the B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center here for what was to be a full-duration static-fire test scheduled to last 485 seconds. The test was the last milestone in the Green Run test campaign for the SLS core stage that started a year ago.
>However, the engines shut down a little more than one minute into the test. In a feed from the control room broadcast on NASA TV, controllers reported an “MCF,” or main component failure, on one of the four engines, about 45 seconds after ignition. The engines shut down about 20 seconds later.
>The cause of the early shutdown was not immediately clear. At a briefing two and a half hours after the test, NASA officials offered little additional information about the cause of the shutdown. “When I left the team a little while ago, they were still beginning to pour through the data, and we will continue to do that over the next several days,” said John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
>There was also what Honeycutt described as a “little bit of a flash” about 60 seconds into the test around a thermal protection blanket on engine number four, the same engine where the MCF was reported. He didn’t have additional information about what might have caused that problem.
https://spacenews.com/green-run-hotfire-test-ends-early/
At the speed of NASA there won`t even be a test flight of SKS this year, even less to the Moon in the next 4 years.
During the transmission of Green test SLS 4x RS-25 it can be heard "Got an MCF on Engine 4"
>BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA performed a hotfire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System Jan. 16, but the stage’s four main engines shut down a little more than a minute into a test designed to last eight minutes.
>The core stage ignited its four RS-25 engines at 5:27 p.m. Eastern at the B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center here for what was to be a full-duration static-fire test scheduled to last 485 seconds. The test was the last milestone in the Green Run test campaign for the SLS core stage that started a year ago.
>However, the engines shut down a little more than one minute into the test. In a feed from the control room broadcast on NASA TV, controllers reported an “MCF,” or main component failure, on one of the four engines, about 45 seconds after ignition. The engines shut down about 20 seconds later.
>The cause of the early shutdown was not immediately clear. At a briefing two and a half hours after the test, NASA officials offered little additional information about the cause of the shutdown. “When I left the team a little while ago, they were still beginning to pour through the data, and we will continue to do that over the next several days,” said John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
>There was also what Honeycutt described as a “little bit of a flash” about 60 seconds into the test around a thermal protection blanket on engine number four, the same engine where the MCF was reported. He didn’t have additional information about what might have caused that problem.
https://spacenews.com/green-run-hotfire-test-ends-early/
At the speed of NASA there won`t even be a test flight of SKS this year, even less to the Moon in the next 4 years.
