According to Ars Technica's quote from the SLS lead engineer, 85mph is actually the limit for gusts, which implies the sustained wind limit is lower than that. They've definitely exceeded designed loads (the question is how big the "engineering design margin" is...but wind loads go as square of wind speed, so 15mph over budget is significant).
Edit: Back-o'-the-napkin math says they'd have to have at least a 40% design margin to have not suffered any damage...the famous B777 wing load testing video has it making it to 154% of design load, I'd have to believe that Artemis' margins are not more than that.
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According to Ars Technica's quote from the SLS lead engineer, 85mph is actually the limit for gusts, which implies the sustained wind limit is lower than that. They've definitely exceeded designed loads (the question is how big the "engineering design margin" is...but wind loads go as square of wind speed, so 15mph over budget is significant).
Edit: Back-o'-the-napkin math says they'd have to have at least a 40% design margin to have not suffered any damage...the famous B777 wing load testing video has it making it to 154% of design load, I'd have to believe that Artemis' margins are not more than that.