[AR] Re: Centaur (was Re: Re: Human Rated Hydrogen Tanks...)
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 00:48:17 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Craig Fink wrote:
The ensuing design scrub increased the thickness to 14 mil
temporarily to increase the margins.
...Did they fix the Tank Tearing problem?
The second test flight was fully successful, to everyone's great relief.
Not all the subsequent test flights were successes (that was a time when
people believed in testing rockets at least a few times *before* putting
valuable payloads on them), but that particular problem was understood
well enough that it didn't recur.
Henry
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