Disaster! NASA's $23.8 B Moon Rocket LEAKED Again, WHY? What Elon Knew all along...

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Disaster! NASA's $23.8 B Moon Rocket LEAKED Again, WHY? What Elon Knew all along... === #alphatech #techalpha #spacex #elonmusk === 0:00 intro 0:37 Persistent Hydrogen Leaks 4:41 Physics of Leaks 9:42 Hydrogen vs. Methane === Disaster! NASA's $23.8 B Moon Rocket LEAKED Again, WHY? What Elon Knew all along... “it was similar, I would say, to some of the uh signatures that we've seen during Artemis one” Oh no! It's happening again. What once plagued Artemis 1 is now repeating itself on Artemis 2. This mission has just suffered another serious schedule hit after its Wet Dress Rehearsal was officially scrubbed, all because of that infamous fuel leak. A problem that’s haunted NASA for decades, not only on the SLS, but even all the way back to the Space Shuttle era. So the big question is: why does this issue keep coming back again and again on NASA’s heavy-lift rockets? Let’s break it all down in today’s episode of Alpha Tech. Disaster! NASA's $23.8 B Moon Rocket LEAKED Again, WHY? What Elon Knew all along... The recent Wet Dress Rehearsal for Artemis 2, conducted on February 2, initially looked like it was going according to plan. But in the end, it was scrubbed midway through, a familiar outcome for anyone who’s been following the SLS program for years. Here’s how it unfolded. Everything started smoothly around L-48 hours, from the evening of January 31 into the morning of February 1. The SLS and Orion had already been looking great at Launch Complex 39B, and teams began powering up the core stage, running electrical system checks, and working through the early milestones exactly as planned. The closeout crew entered the White Room for final inspections, closed and sealed Orion’s hatch, secured the Launch Abort System, and then cleared the pad, all standard procedure. Disaster! NASA's $23.8 B Moon Rocket LEAKED Again, WHY? What Elon Knew all along... Then came February 2: tanking day, the most critical phase of the WDR. This is when teams load cryogenic propellants, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, into both the core stage and the ICPS upper stage. The process began with fast fill, and almost immediately, trouble showed up. A liquid hydrogen leak was detected at the tail service mast umbilical interface, the massive umbilical that feeds propellant from the launch pad into the core stage. Hydrogen concentrations around the umbilical exceeded safety limits, forcing multiple pauses in LH2 flow while teams tried to troubleshoot the issue. === Subcribe Alpha Tech: https://www.youtube.com/@alphatech4966/?sub_confirmation=1 ===