Tsarin gwajin ya bukaci injina hudu RS-25 na roket su yi wuta na dan lokaci sama da mintuna takwas - daidai lokacin da zai dauka don aika roket din zuwa sararin samaniya bayan harba shi. Successfullyungiyar cikin nasara kammala ƙidaya kuma sun kunna injunan, amma injunan sun rufe kaɗan fiye da minti ɗaya a cikin wutar mai zafi. Teamungiyoyi suna nazarin bayanan don tantance abin da ya haifar da rufewar da wuri, kuma zasu ƙayyade hanyar ci gaba.
Don gwaji, ƙafa 212 babban mataki samar da fam miliyan 1.6 na turawa, yayin da aka kafa a cikin B-2 Test Stand a NASA's Stennis Space Center kusa da Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Gwajin wutar mai zafi ya haɗa da ɗora fam 733,000 na oxygen mai ruwa da hydrogen na ruwa - yana yin kwatancen ƙidayar ƙaddamarwa - da kunna injunan.
"Gwajin ranar Asabar wani muhimmin ci gaba ne don tabbatar da cewa babban matakin roket din SLS ya kasance a shirye don aikin Artemis I, da kuma daukar ma'aikata a kan ayyukan da za su yi nan gaba," in ji mai kula da NASA Jim Bridenstine, wanda ya halarci gwajin. "Kodayake injunan ba su yi wuta ba har tsawon lokacin, amma ƙungiyar ta samu nasarar aiki ta hanyar ƙidayar, ta ƙone injunan, kuma ta sami mahimman bayanai don sanar da hanyarmu ta ci gaba."
Teamsungiyoyin tallafi a duk faɗin hadadden gwajin Stennis sun samar da gas mai matsin lamba zuwa matattarar gwajin, sun isar da duk ƙarfin wutar lantarki na aiki, sun samar da sama da galan dubu 330,000 na ruwa a cikin minti ɗaya don kare ƙwanƙwasa wutar gwajin da tabbatar da daidaitaccen tsarin tsarin, kama bayanai da ake buƙata don kimanta aikin wasan kwaikwayon.
"Ganin dukkanin injina hudu sun kunna a karo na farko yayin gwajin wuta mai matukar zafi ya kasance babban ci gaba ga kungiyar Kaddamar da Kimiyyar Sararin Samaniya" in ji John Honeycutt, manajan shirye-shiryen SLS a Cibiyar Binciken Sararin Samaniya ta Marshall ta NASA a Huntsville, Alabama. "Za mu bincika bayanan, kuma abin da muka koya daga gwajin yau zai taimaka mana mu tsara madaidaiciyar hanyar ci gaba don tabbatar da wannan sabon matakin da ke shirye don tashi kan aikin Artemis I."
The Gudun Gudun jerin gwaje-gwaje sun fara ne a watan Janairun 2020, lokacin da aka kawo matakin daga NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility a New Orleans kuma aka sanya shi a cikin gwajin B-2 a Stennis. Teamungiyar ta kammala na farko daga cikin gwaje-gwaje takwas a cikin jerin Green Run kafin ta tsaya a watan Maris saboda ci gaba da cutar coronavirus. Bayan sake dawowa aiki a watan Mayu, ƙungiyar ta yi aiki ta hanyar sauran gwajin a cikin jerin, yayin da kuma ke tsayawa lokaci-lokaci yayin da guguwa shida ko mahaukaciyar guguwa suka shafi Tekun Golf. Kowane gwajin da aka gina akan gwajin da ya gabata tare da ƙaruwa mai rikitarwa don kimanta matakan tsarin zamani, da gwajin wuta mai zafi wanda ya haskaka dukkanin injina huɗu shine gwajin ƙarshe a cikin jerin.
Daraktan Cibiyar Stennis Rick Gilbrech ya ce "Stennis bai shaida wannan matakin iko ba tun lokacin gwajin matakan Saturn V a shekarun 1960," “Stennis shine firaministan da ke gwajin roka wanda ya gwada Saturn V mataki na farko da na biyu wanda ya dauki mutane zuwa Wata yayin shirin Apollo, kuma yanzu, wannan wutar mai zafi ita ce daidai dalilin da ya sa muke gwadawa kamar yadda muke tashi da tashi kamar yadda muka gwada. Za muyi koyi daga rufewar yau da wuri, mu gano duk wani gyara idan an buƙata, mu ci gaba. ”
Baya ga nazarin bayanan, ƙungiyoyin za su kuma bincika ainihin matakin da injunansa na RS-25 guda huɗu kafin sanin matakan gaba. Karkashin Atamis shirin, NASA na aiki don saukar da mace ta farko da na miji na gaba a kan Wata a 2024. SLS da kumbon Orion wadanda zasu dauki 'yan saman jannati zuwa sararin samaniya, tare da tsarin saukar mutum da kuma Gateway da ke zagaye da Wata, sune kashin bayan NASA don zurfin binciken sararin samaniya ..
