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Delta IV Heavy does damp squib show due to ground equipment
The ULA launch of an NRO bird has had it's issues. They actually got
to ignition on Saturday morning (the wee hours, EDT) but just as the livestream host, one of their senior engineers, said "liftoff", the engines were shut down. quote Instead of launching on time, ULA’s infrequently-flown heavy-lift rocket was hit by 72 hours of delays to rectify minor pad hardware bugs. Around 2 am EDT (UTC-4) on August 29th, Delta IV Heavy made it just seconds away from liftoff before the rocket’s autonomous flight computer detected an anomaly with pad hardware and aborted the launch. As a result, the three cores’ three Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A engines were forced to shut down after ignition – an uncommon Delta IV launch abort scenario that has historically required at least a week of work to recycle for another launch attempt. /quote URL:https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-9-doubleheader-ula-launch-abort/ This is expected to add a week to the pre-launch schedule, between having to diagnose the issue and to get the launch vehicle ready again. They had already extended their last hold by roughly an hour, for what the audio seemed to say was a compartment thermal issue that they decided they could live with, and the Aug 29 date was already a slip. Several pre-flight articles around the web noted that the few launches of DIVH made it hard to smooth out the routine, despite the maturity of the Delta family (and there was B-roll during the hold of the history of the Delta family, including the original Thor launches). /dps "and DIVH has launched more times than SLS will" -- Trust, but verify. |
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