[AR] Re: lifting bodies (was Re: ESAS Safety Concerns about Small SRMs)

  • From: Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:47:38 +0100

On 17/04/18 19:39, Henry Spencer wrote:

(Even a need for an escape option doesn't preclude a shroud, although it would require a custom design -- Soyuz launches under a shroud.) (The Soyuz escape system pulls the reentry capsule *plus* everything above it away from the launcher, and then the capsule separates from the everything-above-it assembly.)

Bit OT, but... has anyone ever been saved by a rocket-removes-capsule escape option?


-- Peter Fairbrother

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