LOX transfers don't normally take place into super thin tanks sharing a
flimsy common bulkhead between LOX and tons of kerosene. My guess is common
bulkhead failure during press, the stage two tank seems to stop venting
just before it blows up.
Andrew
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:12 AM, <mleech@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The thing that puzzles me about that is that LOX transfers (ordinary temp)
happen every day throughout the world without incident. Heck, the Air
Products truck pulls up next door to my place several times a year to
refill the home breathing-oxygen dewar for the nabe with emphysema.
What magnitude of procedural goof would account for this? Was this
actually a LOX-transfer issue, or something else?
On 2016-09-01 15:00, George William Herbert wrote:
Speculating:
Supeecooled LOX to liquid air in external insulation plus spark
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