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Man, I can't believe it wasn't more obvious that overheating would be an issue in a tight cluster of ablatively cooled motors.
ULA Briefings Show that EELVS Can Replace Ares 1 - NASA Watch 2008
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Man, I can't believe it wasn't more obvious that overheating would be an issue in a tight cluster of ablatively cooled motors.
ULA Briefings Show that EELVS Can Replace Ares 1 - NASA Watch 2008
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The previous flight had an ablatively cooled engine.
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The gap between engine cut off and staging was 1.5 seconds - which was fine for the ablatively cooled engine on Flight 2.
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