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Article #5955Re: Magellan & SRB exhaust
From: Marcus Hall
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 14:03
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 14:03
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In article <606@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink) writes: > ... that it exactly why the Shuttle turns its undersurface > towards where the probe/satellite starts its burn. The worry is that > exhaust particles could damage or dirty the orbiter's windows. Are the windows considered more critical than the bottom tiles? I guess they are possibly more fragile, but the bottom tiles experience much higher temperatures than the top surfaces. I guess that we know that even with some of the bottom tiles missing, the orbiter doesn't suffer too much damage, so I guess that turning the bottom to the burn makes sense, but it doesn't seem to be clearly the obvious thing to do. marcus hall
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!mcdchg!illusion!marcus From: marcus@illusion.UUCP (Marcus Hall) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space Subject: Re: Magellan & SRB exhaust Message-ID: <394@illusion.UUCP> Date: 18 May 89 14:03:55 GMT References: <982@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <606@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Reply-To: marcus@illusion.UUCP (Marcus Hall) Organization: Magic Numbers Software, Bloomingdale, IL Lines: 13