[AR] Re: Radian One spaceplane
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:19:14 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
The James Webb Space Telescope used a spring for telescope/stage seperation.
After it was cut loose from the upper stage, which probably involved
pyros. Can't find details of what they used on a quick look, but it seems
to have been a clamp-band system, and the thing that releases the clamp
band is usually a pyro system, e.g. explosive bolts.
Henry
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