Developing your cryo ops at a low-humidity site can lead to surprises
when you try to fly out of a high-humidity place, yes. (I'd assume that
loading sub-cooled LOX involves significant changes in hardware and
procedures from the normal 1-atmosphere boiling-point flavor, so they'd
be doing this at the Cape for the first time.)
On 12/17/2015 7:42 PM, Anthony Graziani wrote:
In case any of you guys are following the SpaceX RTF launch, I'd like to
start an update thread. It's scheduled to launch Saturday at 8:25 pm
EST. Last I heard they were having problems loading propellants for the
static fire. Part of Elons latest tweet - "Deep cryo liquid oxygen
presenting some challenges." Theory is that the humidity at CC is
causing more problems than anticipated.
I'm on my way down to CC right now so fingers crossed...
Anthony