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Blue Origin accident
A month or two ago Blue Origin got their first full BE-4 engine put
together (and I think there were a couple more right behind that, so they may have gotten three of them together). Today that engine apparently energetically disassembled itself on the test stand. Just what power levels they were testing is currently unknown, but I wouldn't expect them to be pushing max power through them this early after getting them built. It may not be a major deal and these sorts of things do sometimes happen during testing, but it surely isn't a GOOD sign... -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden |
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Blue Origin accident
Fred J. McCall wrote:
A month or two ago Blue Origin got their first full BE-4 engine put together (and I think there were a couple more right behind that, so they may have gotten three of them together). Today that engine apparently energetically disassembled itself on the test stand. Just what power levels they were testing is currently unknown, but I wouldn't expect them to be pushing max power through them this early after getting them built. It may not be a major deal and these sorts of things do sometimes happen during testing, but it surely isn't a GOOD sign... Drat. Meant to include a link with that. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...ne-test-stand/ -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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