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Article #9025Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST
From: David Robinson
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 23:55
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 23:55
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In article <1989May8.033250.18780@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
| Discovery lands after highly successful mission. [...]
| [...] A small
| leak in the #1 engine's cooling system was found, which permitted a bit
| of hydrogen to leak into the exhaust; it definitely was not there before
| launch. The engine will be replaced before Discovery flies again in
| August. There was an earlier pinhole leak in a similar area of an engine
| flown on STS-26, although the two do not seem related. The next mission
| (Atlantis) is not expected to be affected.
Is this a similar problem to the cooling problem that caused the first
launch attempt of Atlantis to be scrubbed? If so 3 failures in this
one system seems fairly high.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!elroy!david From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST Summary: Cooling leak Message-ID: <15777@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 8 May 89 23:55:19 GMT References: <1989May8.033250.18780@utzoo.uucp> Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL Lines: 19