The Orange County Register a few weeks ago ran an article about the guy who
developed Crater in the 1970s. He's long retired, lives somewhere in Orange
County and apparently has been asked by Boeing to provide support if and
when NASA decides to upgrade Crater to handle large hunks of foam FOD
impacting the orbiter. You can check the OCR website if you're interested.

Later
Ray Schmitt



"Dan Foster" wrote in message
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What are they going to do about CRATER?

Are they going to re-evaluate / retest and update it with new information?

Are they going to abandon it?

Are they going to continue to use it within its existing limitations /
parameters?

Are they going to add a second tool to handle whatever CRATER is not
designed to do?

What happens if they come across a hit outside of the scope of CRATER --
get engineers to do the calculations by hand and run computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) sims?

I haven't heard much about what NASA intends to do with CRATER, so got to
wondering.

Was wondering because was thinking... next time they catch debris falling
off, what then? What if it's outside the scope of CRATER? Are they going
to
make any CRATER update as a prereq for RTF?

-Dan