[AR] arocket Digest V1 #72

  • From: Robert Thau <rst@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:43:37 -0500

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ed Kelleher <Pres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 > Has TEA/TEB ignition been used before on 2nd Stage?  Seems most
 > upper stages are hypergolic, or augmented spark type ignition.
 > Apparently it hasn't been used much on American launchers.

It's what was used on the second stage of the previous generation
Falcon 9, per the spaceflightnow writeup here:

  http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/004/falcon9.html

rst

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