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To: Jack Hydrazine

Jack Hydrazine - great name. It looks to me like one of the combustion chambers let go at the reported 108% thrust.


3 posted on 10/29/2014 9:17:11 PM PDT by pelican001
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To: pelican001

I’d say either a turbopump, a fuel or oxidizer line, or the nozzle catoed.


6 posted on 10/29/2014 9:38:00 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: pelican001

Serious question. How can a rocket produce 108% thrust? Isn’t 100% of something the maximum?


7 posted on 10/29/2014 9:38:51 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: pelican001
It looks to me like one of the combustion chambers let go

Not the mains - I'd think that would be more like an earth-shattering kaboom. Even a nozzle burn-through should be more spectacular and result in some thrust vectoring. Those are rebuilt NK33 engines. That design is based on staged-combustion, with pre-burners powering turbopumps and LOX cooling the bearings. Looks more like the turbomachinery sprung a leak (or blew off some plumbing). This in turn led to a rapid release of O2-rich white hot drive gas. Thus shower of sparks, white-hot flare, no chamber pressure in the mains, and no thrust.

Usually when the hot pressurized RP1 gets loose it's massive fireball time...look for BLEVE on youtube for an example...

17 posted on 10/30/2014 2:53:21 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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