{"id":58388,"date":"2010-10-19T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/950f9bbfdbd5d443021858d36c618004"},"modified":"2010-10-19T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:57:55","slug":"flange-pressure-check-on-tap-today-for-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=58388","title":{"rendered":"Flange Pressure Check on Tap Today for Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technician&#8217;s on Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are working to stop a small leak found in a propellant line for shuttle Discovery\u2019s orbital maneuvering system engines. Last night, crews confirmed the six bolts around the suspect flange were completely tightened. During the process, the leak stopped.\u202a<\/p>\n<p>  Crews will perform a pressure check today to ensure there is no further leaking. Engineers are meeting to assess the issue\u202a.<\/p>\n<p>  The leak was found at a flange located at the interface where two propellant lines meet in the shuttle&#8217;s aft compartment. The line carries a propellant called monomethyl hydrazine, one of two chemicals used to ignite the 6,000-pound thrust engines seen on either side of the shuttle&#8217;s tail above the three main engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technician&#8217;s on Launch Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are working to stop a small leak found in a propellant line for shuttle Discovery\u2019s orbital maneuvering system engines. Last night, crews confirmed the six bolts around the suspect flange were completely tightened. During the process, the leak stopped.\u202a<\/p>\n<p>  Crews will perform a pressure check today to ensure there is no further leaking. Engineers are meeting to assess the issue\u202a.<\/p>\n<p>  The leak was found at a flange located at the interface where two propellant lines meet in the shuttle&#8217;s aft compartment. The line carries a propellant called monomethyl hydrazine, one of two chemicals used to ignite the 6,000-pound thrust engines seen on either side of the shuttle&#8217;s tail above the three main engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}