http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHuTeOY-ca0
Anybody know anything about the propellant in these? They seem to be taking some pretty elaborate precautions when transporting them. And four YEARS to figure out how to dispose of them? Why not just stick them on a test stand and light them off? :confused:
By: sferrin - 10th November 2007 at 20:03
Holy cow! 😮 No wonder they couldn’t just light them off. I know that propellent could slump but had no idea it would do it that much. Nice way to get an explosion between that and the cracking.
By: TEEJ - 10th November 2007 at 18:36
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007global_demil/SessionIIA/1320Lee.pdf
By: sferrin - 10th November 2007 at 13:42
The shaped charges cut the casing and ignite the propellant along the whole booster, so it all burns off pretty tamely. I think if they put it on the stand and just lit them off, you’d have a really small risk of the booster ending up in the next county. That risk assesment probably took 15 years.
Never heard of a motor launching a properly designed test stand into the air. It’s not as though they’ve never tested rocket motors before.
By: Spacepope - 10th November 2007 at 03:20
The shaped charges cut the casing and ignite the propellant along the whole booster, so it all burns off pretty tamely. I think if they put it on the stand and just lit them off, you’d have a really small risk of the booster ending up in the next county. That risk assesment probably took 15 years.
By: sferrin - 7th November 2007 at 00:14
Not very environmentally friendly, thats why.
How is burning them by blowing the cases (causing the propellent to burn off) more environmentally friendly? In either case all the exhaust products go into the air.
By: BIGVERN1966 - 6th November 2007 at 23:17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHuTeOY-ca0
Why not just stick them on a test stand and light them off? :confused:
Not very environmentally friendly, thats why.
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