SLS Cryo Test Is Off Limits To Media Due To ITAR, Says NASA
As Stephen Clark points out, there are no cryogenic ballistic missile systems.
— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) March 29, 2022
As Stephen Clark points out, there are no cryogenic ballistic missile systems.
— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) March 29, 2022
About SLS: Seems to me I’ve heard this song before…
NASA appears to be making sure there will be no bad news by releasing no news.
Let the rampant speculations begin on what issue NASA is hiding with the SLS. It just too easy to compiled a list of issues from the many news articles and NASA press releases from the last half decade.
I think the complete cyrogenic process in covered in several existing publicly available AIAA papers (presented at past conferences). More likely they are worried about a tech flaw and bad press. Boeing built it. What could go wrong?
the real time clock?
Methinks that risk-averse and publicity oversensitive NASA does not want the media to televise the wet dress , because it would reveal that NASA and SLS are fueled by barnyard fowl excrement ( CS)
Would think this would hint at a lack of confidence in the Rocket.
What is so ITAR about these lopp discussion compared the original space shuttle tank, SRBs and SSME that had publicly available loops for 135 launches?
I have been asking myself the same thing.
“It worked just fine! Trust us on this!”
NASA said this restriction will only be in place during WDR, not during launch. What’s the difference? Oh I know, during launch they will probably have those new NASA TV commentators that always talk over all of the comms, so the bad guys won’t be able to hear what is going on.
Better than VP Harris on a hot mic chortling about how she runs NASA (er…”Space Council”)
Kill SLS.
This would be hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic.
Is the tentative June 2022 launch date based on a perfect trouble-free WDR or does it take into account as-yet-undetermined remedial work?
NASA loves to use ITAR as an excuse to keep taxpayers in the dark about things we have spent billions on. After the very public abort out of the Green Run test, I am not at all surprised that they are keeping a lid on this Wet Dress.
They also use it to hide gross mismanagement, like the fact that Taurus XL was allowed to fail a 2nd time and put Glory at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean due to a failure of the NASA Mishap Investigation process and ignoring the recommendations of NASAs own NASA Engineering Safety Center.