[AR] Re: thinking big once more
- From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:14:11 -0700
On 09/30/2016 07:53 AM, John Dom wrote:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I do not think there ever was a rocket of
which an engine (cluster or not) exploded which did not become toast. I
said exploded, not malfunctioned / flamed out.
That suggests that a design priority for rocket with
many less-than-perfectly-reliable engines should be
that the failures involve an engine that stops running,
rather than one which explodes and destroys the rocket.
-dave w
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