Re: 2 Shuttle Main Computers Failed During Launch Last Month

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Quinster7@aol.com: "Re: Depletion burn observed"
• Previous message: LWojack@aol.com: "Re: Flasher ?"
• Maybe in reply to: LWojack@aol.com: "2 Shuttle Main Computers Failed During Launch Last Month"

The short wasn't there before launch. If it was, it would have been
detected. That's the reason for backups and also the reason for the power
distribution system where a single bus failure wouldn't knock an engine out
and a dual bus failure would only knock out a single engine I think.

----------
>From: LWojack@aol.com
>To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com
>Subject: 2 Shuttle Main Computers Failed During Launch Last Month
>Date: Tue, Aug 17, 1999, 8:46 PM
>

>This would not make me feel all that good...does anyone know if it would be 
>practical to hook a diagnostic system to check for short circuits before 
>lift-off?  If the Shuttle doesn't have back-up rocket thruster computers, we 
>have seven casualities.
>

• Next message: Quinster7@aol.com: "Re: Depletion burn observed"
• Previous message: LWojack@aol.com: "Re: Flasher ?"
• Maybe in reply to: LWojack@aol.com: "2 Shuttle Main Computers Failed During Launch Last Month"