burn-through

Sandrot - are you sure Ares I burn-through is survivable with heavy top-loading on those casings?

Launching Orion on EELVs - NASA Watch 2008

It's light from the burn-through was bright enough to wake people up in the wee early morning and there was a sonic boom.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

Fixated on potential tile damage as the relevant question, assuming without good evidence that the RCC panels were strong enough to withstand a foam strike, subtly skewing the discussion away from catastrophic burn-through and toward the potential effects on turnaround times on the ground and how that might affect the all-important launch schedule, the shuttle managers were convinced that they had the situation as they defined it firmly under control.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

Ham answered, No burn-through means no catastrophic damage.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

Ham answered, No burn-through means no catastrophic damage.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

The engineers who came up with this plan realized that in reality it would have been extremely dangerous, and might well have led to a high-speed burn-through and the loss of the crew.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

There is one case yet that they wish to run, but kind of just jumping to the conclusion of all that, they do show that [there is], obviously, a potential for significant tile damage here, but thermal analysis does not indicate that there is potential for a burn-through.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

Fixated on potential tile damage as the relevant question, assuming without good evidence that the RCC panels were strong enough to withstand a foam strike, subtly skewing the discussion away from catastrophic burn-through and toward the potential effects on turnaround times on the ground and how that might affect the all-important launch schedule, the shuttle managers were convinced that they had the situation as they defined it firmly under control.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

The engineers who came up with this plan realized that in reality it would have been extremely dangerous, and might well have led to a high-speed burn-through and the loss of the crew.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003

There is one case yet that they wish to run, but kind of just jumping to the conclusion of all that, they do show that [there is], obviously, a potential for significant tile damage here, but thermal analysis does not indicate that there is potential for a burn-through.

Columbia's Last Flight 2003