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NASA can’t deliver the cargo to ISS, all blame on SpaceX Dragon!
NASA always seems to be in trouble!!!
Not only with the Moon rocket, the agency is now stuck on the ground, and can’t deliver the cargo to ISS, all blame on SpaceX Dragon!!!
What’s wrong?
All this and more in today’s episode of Great SpaceX!
NASA and SpaceX have just delayed Cargo Dragon’s CRS-25 space station resupply mission another two weeks after the company narrowed down the cause of the spacecraft’s rare leak.
Instead of the mission’s original June 7th target, which was eventually pushed back to June 10th and then June 28th when SpaceX discovered signs of a possible fuel leak near one of the spacecraft’s many ‘Draco’ thrusters, NASA and SpaceX will now attempt to launch CRS-25 no earlier than (NET) July 11th.
That makes CRS-25 something exceptionally rare: a SpaceX launch delayed more than a month by an issue discovered just a few days before liftoff.
Alongside its growing cadence and record of successful launches, Falcon 9 has quickly become one of the most reliable and on-time rockets currently operating.
Once the rocket has been integrated, SpaceX will occasionally run into a day or two of delays caused by minor technical issues or poor weather, but anything more than a few days has become exceptionally rare.
The same has generally been true for Dragon and Dragon 2, although Dragon 2 spacecraft are much newer and less experienced than Falcon rockets and do often run into minor issues.
However, it has been years since a Dragon mission was delayed multiple weeks just a few days before its initial launch target. CRS-25’s issues are extraordinarily rare for SpaceX.
On June 13th, NASA distributed an update on those issues, revealing that SpaceX had narrowed down the cause of the anomalous fuel vapor readings that delayed the launch to a single “Draco thruster valve inlet joint.”
Dragon spacecraft has 16 Draco maneuvering thrusters, each of which has at least two “valve inlet joints” for fuel (monomethylhydrazine or MMH) and oxidizer (dinitrogen tetroxide or NTO).
Dragon’s smaller pressure-fed Draco thrusters operate at relatively low pressures, but the hypergolic (auto-igniting) fuel and oxidizer they burn are extremely uncooperative and corrosive and create tough conditions for valves to live and operate.
In general, valves are already a major source of headaches in spaceflight, where the thermal and chemical environments are bipolar and unforgiving in the extreme, the stakes are about as high as they get, and basic realities of physics demand that all hardware be as light and minimal as possible.
NASA can’t deliver the cargo to ISS, all blame on SpaceX Dragon!
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