[AR] Re: Record for the most firings on a single igniter?

  • From: Michael Clive <clive@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:30:49 -0700

It got really boring.


On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Randall Clague <rclague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

XCOR did 1000 consecutive igniter tests several times. It almost became a
rite of passage for interns.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 PM Lars Osborne <lars.osborne@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Does anyone have data for what is the most number of ignitions performed
on bi-propellant, non-hypergolic rocket igniter without being rebuilt? I
know that XCOR has done thousands of runs on their igniters, but I don't
know how often they get rebuilt or if anyone has performed comparable
reliability tests. What is the state of the art for igniter cycles?

Thanks,
Lars Osborne


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