{"id":87316,"date":"2010-03-15T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-pinpoints-cause-of-static-fire-test-abort\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T14:35:01","slug":"spacex-pinpoints-cause-of-static-fire-test-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-pinpoints-cause-of-static-fire-test-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Pinpoints Cause of Static Fire Test Abort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[03-15-10] <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> has determined that the first static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket was shutdown due to the failure of a ground support system valve, the company said in a March 11 e-mail.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX aborted the March 9 test two seconds before its scheduled start due to a problem with the spin start system. SpaceX engineers determined that the cutoff was triggered by a valve that releases high-pressure&nbsp; helium to start the first stage engine turbopumps, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe problem was pretty simple: Our autostart sequence didn\u2019t issue the command to the normally closed ground-side isolation valve,\u201d Musk said. \u201cWe had tested everything on the vehicle side exhaustively in Texas but didn\u2019t have this [isolation] valve on our test stand there. Definitely a lesson learned to make sure that everything is the same between test stand and launch pad on the ground side, not just on the vehicle side.\u201d <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The first launch of the Falcon 9 is scheduled for April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-15-10] SpaceX has determined that the first static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket was shutdown due to the failure of a ground support system valve, the company said in a March 11 e-mail. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX aborted the March 9 test two seconds before its scheduled start due to a problem with the spin [&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-87316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87316"}],"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=87316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}