Artemis II frozen waste pipe #Vergecast
The Verge·2026-04-10 19:21
Hours after Artemis 2 launched, the toilet broke. The frozen urine in the exterior vent line was just like causing cloggage. So what they did is they took the Orion capsule and they decided to rotate the whole capsule toward the sun to use solar heat to thaw urine blockage and fix the toilet.>> This by the way is the entire thesis of data centers in space. >> Yeah. >> Like we can harness the power of the sun to do amazing things.>> Yeah. Um and there's this amazing line. I think it was Jackie Mahaffry, a mi ...