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Article #5935Magellan & SRB exhaust
From: Andy Clews
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 12:41
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 12:41
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If the Shuttle crew were able to watch Magellan as it fired off on its trip to Venus, would they have been able to see the exhaust plume from its solid motor? The reason I ask this fascinating :-) question is that, years ago when I watched the later-Apollo LEMs leave the moon (by the miracle of TV), I noted that no exhaust was visible - only the debris blasted from the top of the descent stage. If liquid fueled motors burn "invisibly" in the vacuum of space, what about the solid rocket motors? Also, (rather naive question), would the shuttle have been "showered" with any of the impurities from the Magellan solid motor exhaust at burn time, even though it was obviously a long distance from it? -- Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, ENGLAND JANET: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: andy%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac Voice: +44 273 606755 ext.2129
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!syma!andy From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space Subject: Magellan & SRB exhaust Message-ID: <982@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 15 May 89 12:41:11 GMT Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 18