The injector being the N2O tank explosion culprit was new for me.
I take it you are with Agile Aero now?
jd
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Randall Clague
Sent: vrijdag 22 april 2016 12:39
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: breathing nitrogen
The three fatalities in the Scaled accident were not involved in the cold flow
test. They were bystanders, watching the test through a chain link fence. Any
nitrous exposure they experienced was entirely incidental to their injuries.
Their injuries were due to their being perforated by pieces of the carbon
composite run tank, which suffered a BLEVE upon being punctured by the injector
under test. The injector was fired into the run tank by the explosion of the
Case/Throat/Nozzle (CTN) simulator. I do not know why the CTN simulator
exploded..
There were no enclosed spaces anywhere on the Scaled test site that day.
Asphyxiation was not a factor. Those people died because they were not under
cover when the hardware they were watching exploded.
-R
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:04 AM John Dom <johndom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lloyd Droppers wrote on 220416:
A few people died during space shuttle launch prep
<https://nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudyFile/Download/523>
https://nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudyFile/Download/523
