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That's a lot to unpack! Thanks! Meh... I never "fed" the "online monsters", but I played with offline models with... hmm... mixed results (yes, tiny models compared to what is available in the interwebs). Still, after chewing the SCOM, replying that the SSMEs have 3.3Mlbf of thrust doesn't get...

"Making then like sausages", chinese version:

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big...

I guess the reason NG blew up was because they loaded it with too much confidence...

And now from above: https://soaratlas.com/maps/141656?basemap=Google%20Satellite&pos=28.471651297088563%2C-80.53921784842069%2C17.97

Well, there are 2 factors in Orbiter that make those things^^^ not necesarily good enough. First is the time: Orbiter uses TBD, and the Shuttle used GMT/UTC, and they are not the same, and the difference between them changed over time. Then there is the shape of the Earth in Orbiter being...

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy. Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through...

IMO, this thread should be just for the discussion of the post explosion "incident" future of the Artemis program, leaving the "what happened" to the existing New Glenn thread.

Looking at that video and the post-incident photos, it looks like the "ceiling" of the flame tunnel is no longer where it was, so the "fixed base" for the rocket is also history. It probably will be 2028 before this is working again...🤦‍♂️ What a fu***p... even without failures, a single pad...

The center of the explosion, 2 years ago tomorrow

We knew the lighting tower was gone, but now we see that the access tower has big damage...

Video? Yes. Overall? The N1 probably still has that record, but it was on film. (Yes, I'm nitpicking :p) But then, this one had hydrogen, which makes the explosion hotter... Sunrise is about 2 hours away, so that is when we'll see the full state of the pad.

Let the conspiracies begin

Wow! That is a proper Cape Canaveral 1960s explosion! 🤯 I was thinking not that long ago that they needed a 2º pad ASAP, because if something like this happens (or even if just a 2º stage test goes kaput), then it would be many, many, many months to get back into shape. Anyway, if it wasn't...

Seems 90º off... the first 2 pictures show that, viewed from Orion, the rest of the Lander is towards the right.

Hmm, not planning on it just yet... it was commanded by the LPS, and currently there is no LDB or software modules to handle that... but it will be much easier after v2.0.