composite LOX tanks still live?

http://www.space.com/news/ft-090107-...explosion.html

...

Beutel said Lockheed Martin Corp. and ASRC Aerospace
Corp. conducted the pressurization test on a composite tank, and
that the work was not related to NASA programs.

The vessel, enclosed by a metal cage with a plywood box around it,
was intended to leak but not rupture, Beutel said.

Marion LaNasa, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin at NASA's Michoud
Assembly Facility in New Orleans, said the test involved an
unlined, liquid oxygen compatible tank measuring 54 inches in
diameter that is being designed to support future launch vehicles.

...

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:16:44 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
Rick Jones made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

http://www.space.com/news/ft-090107-...explosion.html

...

Beutel said Lockheed Martin Corp. and ASRC Aerospace
Corp. conducted the pressurization test on a composite tank, and
that the work was not related to NASA programs.

The vessel, enclosed by a metal cage with a plywood box around it,
was intended to leak but not rupture, Beutel said.

Marion LaNasa, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin at NASA's Michoud
Assembly Facility in New Orleans, said the test involved an
unlined, liquid oxygen compatible tank measuring 54 inches in
diameter that is being designed to support future launch vehicles.

XCOR uses composite LOX tanks.

Rick Jones wrote:
http://www.space.com/news/ft-090107-...explosion.html

...

Beutel said Lockheed Martin Corp. and ASRC Aerospace
Corp. conducted the pressurization test on a composite tank, and
that the work was not related to NASA programs.

The vessel, enclosed by a metal cage with a plywood box around it,
was intended to leak but not rupture, Beutel said.

Marion LaNasa, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin at NASA's Michoud
Assembly Facility in New Orleans, said the test involved an
unlined, liquid oxygen compatible tank measuring 54 inches in
diameter that is being designed to support future launch vehicles.


A plywood blast containment barrier... that sounds like something I
would come up with...they're lucky someone didn't get a splinter in
their eye.

Pat