# SLS Water Suppression Can Create Dangerous Pressure Spikes, NASA Simulations Show

- slug: sls-water-suppression-can-create-dangerous-pressure-spikes-nasa-simulations-show
- date: 2026-03-20
- category: Space & Aerospace

Before Artemis II leaves the ground, NASA ran the numbers twice on what happens when a giant rocket plume meets a wall of water.

The agency released details this week of a computational fluid dynamics study using its in-house LAVA framework — Launch, Ascent, and Vehicle Aerodynamics — applied to...

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