Re: Shuttle ET foam shedding fix?
- From: Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:39:18 -0500
Ian Stirling wrote:
Take off all the foam, cover with a polymer shield, and flow dry helium or
neon through it before liftoff.
That's going to take one hell of a lot of support struts between the tank wall and the outer insulating shell. How are you going to deal with the contraction of the tank as it's filled with the cryogenic propellant inside the warm shell? Also, helium is highly heat conductive.
Pat .
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