[AR] Re: AMOS-6 RUD
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 16:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Jonathan Goff wrote:
The odds of finding out what happened are slightly better for a pad
failure, where although the metal will be melted and shredded, you might
just get more data back than when something fails out over the ocean.
Which is why one of the standard accident-investigation techniques is to
collect *all* the pieces and more or less reassemble them in a hangar.
The patterns in the debris can tell you a lot.
There is admittedly the question of whether anybody outside SpaceX will
get to hear the answers.
Henry
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