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The results of the autopsy are consistent with a scenario in which the engine compartment had a leak of fuel already in the pre-stage due. An injured packaging, fuel pre-stage valve. As the pressure increased nominally at the start of the main-stage, did undersized spacers between the cooling jacket inner and outer wall and poor and undersized welds that cooling jacket burst open. Fuel ran out into the open air without passing through the combustion chamber, while the LOX / GOX unreacted ran out through the nozzle. Both contributed to the outer fire, which in turn ignited the fuel which escaped through the hatches from the engine compartment. Setbacks through hatches created a secondary fire in the engine compartment. We could not detect leakage of LOX system.
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originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: Thill
Wow.
What does it take to kill one of those?
originally posted by: samkent
A right angled mirror also provides protection against direct impact.
It's all smoke and mirrors
originally posted by: Thill
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: Thill
Wow.
What does it take to kill one of those?
I was wondering the same thing, then I wondered if it would survive a close up with a volcano ? I guess that would have been to much, but never the less those are some thought gizmos there
I wonder if somebody could enlighten me what the temperature of that exhaust is ? I see from Murgatroid's link above that it would have been between 660 C and 1000 C.