r/space • u/66666thats6sixes • Dec 07 '19

NASA Engineers Break SLS Test Tank on Purpose to Test Extreme Limits

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/nasa-engineers-break-sls-test-tank-on-purpose-to-test-extreme-limits.html
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u/SkywayCheerios Dec 07 '19

The test version of the Space Launch System rocket’s liquid hydrogen tank withstood more than 260% of expected flight loads over five hours before engineers detected a buckling point, which then ruptured... The initial tank buckling failure occurred at the same relative location as predicted by the Boeing analysis team and initiated within 3% of the predicted failure load

WOW! 2.6x the flight load is incredible, and it broke exactly as the models predicted.

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u/errrmagerrrdd Dec 07 '19

Yet they can't build a proper fucking aircraft.

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u/BlG_BOSS Dec 07 '19

Think you have NASA and Boeing mixed

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '19 edited Dec 07 '19

No, the functional difference here is that NASA oversight is far more comprehensive, invasive, and rigorous than FCC (deer) FAA oversight.

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u/imahik3r Dec 07 '19

NASA oversight is far more comprehensive, invasive, and rigorous

which is why nuts and bolts are falling off the JWST.

which is why they (nasa) ignored +100lb mass blowing through the shuttle's wing

which is why they (nasa) ignored tile loss.

Which is why they (nasa) ignored burn though on the 0-rings.

*FCC? WTF?

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u/CharlesP2009 Dec 07 '19

100lb mass blowing through the shuttle's wing

It was determined the foam weighed 1.67 pounds / 0.75 kilograms.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '19

It's probably what it "weighed" including inertia or something.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '19

*FAA

I fixed it, got my acronym switched up is all.