NASA Conducts Water Flow Mobile Launcher Test for Moon to Mars Missions

As NASA continues to prepare for its Artemis mission to the moon in 2024, they are testing every possible component. This video demonstrates a successful water flow test with the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B on July 2, 2019. It represents the first of nine tests NASA will conduct to verify that the sound suppression system is ready for launch of NASA’s Space Launch System for the first Artemis mission.

Approximately 450,000 gallons of water was released from an elevated water tank and distributed through large diameter piping and valves to water nozzles located in the Pad B flame deflector, the mobile launcher flame hole and on the launcher’s blast deck in just 45 seconds. That’s enough water to fill 45 residential swimming pools! The system reached a peak flow rate of 1.1 million gallons per minute.

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