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>>15446532

>>14970105

>>14861154
>the safety requirement of 182.4 psi
What the fuck, where is it going to encounter anywhere near that much pressure differential without going underwater?

>>12790869
Its literally the best case scenario, SLS takes crew to space while starship puts fuckloads of cargo on the moon. NASA eill for sure crew rate the SLS first which will just give starship more time to show how competent it is.

>>12790425
Thanks anon my SLS folder is literally just memes and failures.

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>>12200398
>orange tank bad
It's still made out of effectively tissue paper, it's not designed to be structural. That's why the Shelby Launch System is having so much trouble.
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>>12200425
TANG btfo

>>11692405
You know that's what would happen... it would be grounded for two years of "investigations", even with the LES having worked and nobody died.

>>11617913
[laughing in orange tank]

>>11529262
Hay guise kan I play to?

Guess who quietly blew up a massive fuel tank using liquid nitrogen yesterday...this time on purpose...

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/nasa-engineers-break-sls-test-tank-on-purpose-to-test-extreme-limits.html

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

>Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its breaking point. 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. Engineers concluded the test at approximately 11 p.m.

>The test version of the tank aced earlier tests, withstanding forces expected at engine thrust levels planned for Artemis lunar missions, showing no signs of cracks, buckling or breaking. The test on Dec. 5 -- conducted using a combination of gaseous nitrogen for pressurization and hydraulics for loads -- pushed the tank to the limits by exposing it to higher forces that caused it to break as engineers predicted. Earlier tests at Marshall certified the tank for both the current version of the SLS -- called Block 1, which will use an upper stage called the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage -- and the Block 1B version that will replace the ICPS with the more powerful Exploration Upper Stage.

>For all the tests, NASA and Boeing engineers simulated liftoff and flight stresses on a test version of the Space Launch System liquid hydrogen tank that is structurally identical to the flight tank. Throughout the tests in Marshall’s 215-foot-tall test stand, they used large hydraulic pistons to deliver millions of pounds of punishing compression, tension and bending forces on the robust test tank.