{"id":42351,"date":"2005-07-13T21:30:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tanking-process-starts-following-heater-failure\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:30:39","slug":"tanking-process-starts-following-heater-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tanking-process-starts-following-heater-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanking process starts following heater failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA TV has reported this morning that the loading of propellants into the External Tank (ET) has been delayed due to a heater problem relating to the ET. However, at 7:11am EDT the issue was resolved.   <\/p>\n<p>  The heater is part of the ground support equipment used during launch, and heats the ET Intertank purge. Whilst the main heater has failed, a backup was used.<br \/>\n<font face=\"Arial\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The Shuttle could still have launched, but NASA managers noted they would prefer a redundant heater ready to go when tanking begins. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">United Space Alliance\u2019s \u201cRed Team\u201d was sent to the launch pad to change out a firing package in the failed heater. That process was&nbsp;a success and&nbsp;c<\/font><\/font><font face=\"Arial\">hilldown of the LOX and LH2 lines begun at 7:11am EDT.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Tanking needed to start before 9am EDT to avoid any impact on the 3:51pm EDT launch time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">(Story updated from previous heater failure article).<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA TV has reported this morning that the loading of propellants into the External Tank (ET) has been delayed due to a heater problem relating to the ET. However, at 7:11am EDT the issue was resolved. The heater is part of the ground support equipment used during launch, and heats the ET Intertank purge. Whilst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}