External tank (ET) mounted command destruct system ordnance options were analyzed and judged on the basis of performance, cost, weight, development time, safety and ease of installation. A system using LSC's installed in the cable tray on the ET LOX/LH2 tanks was recommended. (Author)
Space Shuttle Range Safety Command Destruct System Analysis and Verification. Phase II. Ordnance Options for a Space Shuttle Range Safety Command Destruct System
1981
125 pages
Report
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English
Manned Spacecraft , Ammunition, Explosives, & Pyrotechnics , Rocket Engines & Motors , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Range safety , Shaped charges , Propellant tanks , Explosive charges , Linear systems , External , Liquid propellant rocket engines , Tank fragmentation , Blast , Penetration , Structural response , Rupture , Space shuttles , Liquid hydrogen , Mass flow , Altitude , Self destruct devices , Remote control , Systems analysis , Linear shaped charges , ET(External Tanks) , Command destruct systems , Dumping , NTISDODXA