[AR] Re: shuttle SRBs (was Re: Re: Phenolic regression rate)
- From: Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 10:12:07 +0100
Am 04.02.2018 um 01:38 schrieb Henry Spencer:
The whole thing quietly died after Challenger, partly because the USAF
(the folks with the heavy polar-orbit payloads) lost interest in using
the shuttle, and partly because the new emphasis on safety discouraged
unnecessary major changes to flight-critical fault-intolerant hardware
like the SRBs.
Any idea how ArianeSpace solved this issue on the ArianeV SRBs ?
A 3 segment assembly that seems to have changed over to e-beam welding
in 2005/6
(
https://www.google.com/search?q=ariane+welded+booster+joints ;)
Uwe
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