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0 pointsakamaka2mo ago0 comments

There’s been plenty of coverage of this issue, and this article discusses some of the changed they made: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/the-artemis-...

The only thing the author of this blog piece has to offer that’s new is his very strong personal intuition that the new design hasn’t been properly validated, without any engineering explanation about why the testing the performed won’t adequately simulate real world performance.

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cubefox2mo ago· 1 in thread

Their testing procedures failed to predict the char loss before the flight, so they don't seem very reliable.

akamakaOP2mo ago

Yes, the original procedures didn’t find the problem, but it says they were eventually able to duplicate it in the lab and the new material has passed that test.

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