Ian Woollard wrote:
Randall Clague wrote:
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:47:13 -0500 (EST), Henry Spencer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The ghost of Max Hunter says you tested it too rigorously. :-)
(Several Thors failed due to excessive static testing before launch, and
the static tests never once caught anything important. Eventually they
talked the USAF into eliminating the static tests.)
You're kidding, right? Thor was an ELV. Armadillo's building an RLV.
Even RLVs wear out. Check out the Space Shuttle wiring issues.
But that's after many flights. Armadillo's RLV hasn't been through
nearly the same duty cycle. And if static testing to the equivalent of,
say, less than 10 flights makes something fail, then that component
probably needs to be made more reuseable. ("No, honest, this Titan
rocket is reuseable! Okay, we replace everything but this one fleck of
paint, and we take the fleck off before launch, but it's still the same
rocket even if we replace 99.999...% of the mass, right?")
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