News Vulcan: ULA's Next Generation Launcher

TheShuttleExperience said:
Wow, I would expect the loss of a nozzle to be catastrophic (at least for the booster and eventually for the rest of the LV too).
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The solid motor will just burn regardless. Unless something lodges in the nozzle throat there would be no cause for any over-pressure events that would destroy the casing. And unlike regeneratively cooled liquid engines, failure of the nozzle bell wouldn't be particularly combustible.

The Challenger accident occurred when a SRB o-ring joint blew out and a stream of burning gas impinged on the external tank. The SRB itself did not explode - it continued to burn (albeit with lower chamber pressure and thrust). Both SRBs survived the explosion and breakup and flew for a time before range safety terminated them.
 
Thunder Chicken said:
What exactly do those percentages represent? What would be "100% of Inclination"? Are there four separate points for the four axes?

This smells like someone manipulating plot axes and their ranges to make a nice looking plot for advertising.
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I think he explained the plot once... yeah, it would be nice to have absolute numbers. but this way they can use the same plot for DOD missions.
 
Thunder Chicken said:
The Challenger accident occurred when a SRB o-ring joint blew out and a stream of burning gas impinged on the external tank. The SRB itself did not explode - it continued to burn (albeit with lower chamber pressure and thrust). Both SRBs survived the explosion and breakup and flew for a time before range safety terminated them.
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I had the investigation report as a video on VHS in the late 90s. There wasn't really an "explosion" but rather a deflagration. The orbiter itself was destroyed due to aerodynamic overstress when it became loose rapidly.

A booster failure or anomaly can have catastrophic consequences or close calls. For STS-51L it was "just" a failing O-Ring. Also remember Soyuz MS-10...
 
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Thunder Chicken said:
The Challenger accident occurred when a SRB o-ring joint blew out and a stream of burning gas impinged on the external tank. The SRB itself did not explode - it continued to burn (albeit with lower chamber pressure and thrust). Both SRBs survived the explosion and breakup and flew for a time before range safety terminated them.
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More so, the flame jet of the booster welding through the tank hull didn't cause an explosion itself, since the hydrogen tank didn't contain any oxygen to start a combustion. The hydrogen just gave the flame a different colour for some long seconds. Things decided to go their own way, when the structure of the tank failed and the aft tank dome fell off. But I am not sure right now, if this happened before or after the aft attachment of the booster failed and I am too lazy to look right now.

What ever happened in which order: It was fast and it was catastrophic. Most final things only became known because the core rope memory of the computers was still there to be read out.
 
Another "observation" :rolleyes:

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2021989144751198326
https://twitter.com/x/status/2021883496302604552

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021914314739736735

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021889699502010874
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