NASA Monthly Update About The Monthly SLS Schedule Slip
Hearing that the SLS rollout for the wet dress rehearsal is now March 8, or thereabouts. NASA was trying for Feb. 15, but that's apparently been delayed.
— Christian Davenport (@wapodavenport) February 1, 2022
NASA Invites Media to Uncrewed Artemis Moon Mission Update, NASA
“NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST today, Wednesday, Feb. 2, to discuss progress toward the launch of the agency’s uncrewed Artemis I mission. Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at: https://www.nasa.gov/live. The agency will roll the combined Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for testing no earlier than March 2022. While the teams are not working any major issues, NASA has added additional time to complete closeout activities inside the VAB prior to rolling the rocket out for the first time.”
On SLS they slip schedule by season, not month.
progress | noun | ˈpräɡres | When the slips are three weeks, instead of three years.
It is looking like Eric bergers article last August predicting spring or even summer launch as more and more true despite how crazy everyone called him at the time.
Still time for the FAA to wrap things up for Boca Chica to get to orbit first.
It seems to me we have heard this song before. Meantime we will see if the FAA again unnecessarily delays Space X on February 28, 2022.
Can you identify instances when you can demonstrate that the FAA was a source of ‘unnecessary’ delay?
Sure. Saying they did not have time after several months to read and consider the comments is nonsense. Saying they did not know of Space X’s plan is also nonsense because Space X has been very open and the most transparent of all the Space companies.
Biden has open contempt for both Tesla and Space X. Ignoring the Space X Inspiration mission and Saint Jude Hospital is unforgivable.
I am willing to give the FAA the benefit of the doubt, but if there is no excuse if there are further delays after February 28, 2022.
I think the FAA’s resources to deal with huge amount of comment it received on SpaceX’s plans for Starbase, in TX are not as robust as you might think. Further, “knowing” SpaceX’s plans is really irrelevant. The FAA has to act on what SpaceX submits to them, not what you claim the FAA knows. It’s well known that the FAA is way understaffed, and it’s not as if everyone at the FAA is qualified to read such submitted comments; report on them; and then factor them into any rulings or decisions.
>FAA is way understaffed
Like many other govt agencies, a common practice of getting rid of regulators by “starving the beast.”
Biden is a staunch supporter of unions, recognizing their role in improving the lives of regular people. Musk’s opposition to unions has meant that Biden shows up in Detroit to tout new Big 3 electric cars, but not Tesla’s offerings. As to SpaceX, it seems that Biden has been greasing the wheels for them for some time. https://futurism.com/joe-bi…
On the FAA, I trust that they’re doing a thorough job with the limited resources granted to them by Congress, even as the landscape for their work changes with the expansion of commercial space activity. Their timeline may not quite be Musk’s, but Musk has a habit of declaring over-the-top ambitious timelines that are never kept. I really can’t say I care of Musk gets in a Twitter huff over whether the FAA will bow to his fantasy timelines. He doesn’t hold to them. Why should the FAA?
It was a “bold” move by Musk to build the launch tower and pad before getting FAA approval to actually launch Starship in Boca Chica.
This song’s been playing like a broken record for almost a decade.