Re: Q: For Sy Liebergot (Yeah, it's new safe CT-free topic fodder!)

Stuf4 wrote: 
I also find this statement as curious:

"The g-force was so great that the reactant feed valves
feeding Fuel cells 1 & 3 were shocked closed, causing both to fail
within about a minute."

Was it g-force that caused the valve closure?  My understanding is that
the hardware was thoroughly ground tested to withstand more g's than
even that experienced during launch vibration, to include harmonic
resonance analysis.


<sigh>

You missed the part where Sy says the ambient G-force was some *4000* times higher than normal. I kinda doubt that was in teh test specs, y'know?

Gotta work on the reading-for-comprehension thingy...


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