Posted on 05/28/2022 6:50:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In an article(opens in new tab) published on Monday (May 23), the website Space Explored alleged that Endeavour experienced an issue during its mission that could have had disastrous consequences during last month's homecoming...citing unnamed sources at NASA and SpaceX, claims that hypergolic propellant — fuels paired to instantly combust on contact — leaked into Endeavour's heat shield during the mission. (Dragon's Draco thrusters use hypergolic propellants.)
NASA...has issued a statement refuting the heat shield claims...
Steve Stich, manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, took some time to comment on the Crew-5 heat shield swap.
Stich elaborated on the testing process applied to spacecraft components such as heat shields: "We put them through a battery of tests, and those tests actually apply physical loads to that heat shield — the kind of loads we'll see during the aerodynamic reentry sequence and also at the splashdown event."
Stich said that the Crew-5 heat shield failed its "landing loads" test, citing a problem with the unit's manufacturing. X-rays helped determine that the heat shield would not be viable, and the decision was made to use the next one in line.
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Wow, they’re hitting Musk from every angle.
Those unnamed sources again. Sort of like that Washington football team.
I tried to go to the original article since the headline was missing the first part, but I only got: This site cannot be reached.
Can you please correct the link?
“...Can you please correct the link?”
You give up too easily:
Given:
https://www./nasa-denies-problem-spacex-ax-1-mission
should have been:
https://www.space.com/nasa-denies-problem-spacex-ax-1-mission
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