Well there's your problem!
8" Quick Disconnect at the Tail Service Mast Umbilical Liquid Hydrogen GSE fuel line 1
Joshua Sullivan
Isaiah James
dude everyone makes more money if it never flies ok
Julian Cooper
Sadly true, bet they love all the overtime and pad pay they get
Angel Jackson
Well no... But they are literally too fucking stupid to ever make this work. The next stage is a literal fucking pipe dream... Or bomb I guess if they ever get it off paper.
Jonathan Martin
>But they are literally too fucking stupid to ever make this work.
How hard can it be? It's not rocket scie
Ryder Moore
Explain it like I'm a black engineer. What's inherently wrong with a quick disconnect?
Levi Wood
Easiest place for hydrogen to leak at the inlet, cause it needs to disconnect quickly (to retreat with the entire assembly behind the protective blast shield on liftoff) so it can't be sealed too tightly
Jack Harris
Oh, so they're using hydrogen fuel instead of kerosene or something and thought a quick disconnect still made sense? You sound smart, you should work at NASA.
Similarly, isn't this a problem for the future of any hydrogen car charging system / gas station?
Lincoln Taylor
The tower infrastructure, including the quick disconnect umbilicals, would make sense as the problem. The history of that tower is a disturbing journey into big, politically charged government contracts.
It's had like four different contractors build and modify the thing without much coordination or cooperation between them all or even decent documentation
Nolan Gonzalez
Yeah hydrogen fuel just like the space shuttle, so they're chasing leaks, just like during the space shuttle era this is a good summary
arstechnica.com
>isn't this a problem for the future of any hydrogen car charging system / gas station?
Yep, that's why hydrogen cars are a meme
Colton Reyes
What do you mean no? For something that size you would have a team of hundreds of engineers and mechanics to service it. All of them getting massive over time whenever something goes wrong and a launch is scrubbed.
Grayson King
>disturbing journey into big, politically charged government contracts
But enough about SLS
Elijah James
pic related
Lucas Sullivan
>space
Next you'll tell me all about dinosaurs.
Parker Harris
Can you imagine the shit show of women trying to refuel their car's hydrogen tanks? LMAO
Jack Bennett
Yup, but as bad as the rocket itself has been, at least that received more attention because it was the big flashy flamey thing. The support infrastructure was where stuff went from bad to worse
Landon Miller
Yeah their GSE is terrible, learned nothing from the shuttle program
Zachary Scott
Artemis; goddess of the hunt, protector of children, operational metronome.
>it's glownigger season
Oliver Jenkins
Part of the problem appears to be the culture fostered by Kris Kraft. To give the guy credit, he seems to have basically built the entire ground mission control system & organization from scratch. But his controlling personality & hubris seem to have survived with his less capable acolytes that succeeded him.
Leo Wood
fucking kek just because they both have the word hydrogen in them does not make hydrogen fuel cars and cryogenic liquid hydrogen for rocket engines the same thing you pathetic retards
Cooper Green
Here come the joggers to correct the record. So the leaking issues in both are completely unrelated and coincidental?
Gabriel Taylor
>Artemis; goddess of the scrubs, protector of jobs, operational disaster.
Fix'd
Gabriel Reed
So you're saying it won't leak and there won't be hydrogen embrittlement of the metal they're contained in because its not cryogenically cooled?
Fantastic! It doesn't work that way in reality.
Lucas Ortiz
Superior RP-1 rocket launch bout to happen btw youtube.com
You can be damn sure they won't scrub at least
Kayden Morgan
Look at the moon modern NASA can't get to, sad