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What NDT methods use for CFRP based fairing quality check?
Fairings are made with carbon fiber face sheets sandwiched between aluminium honeycomb cores. What procedures are adopted to detect different manufacturing defects like Debonding, damage cores, cracks ...
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Is the depressurization performance of fairing during ascent ever tested on the ground before flight?
Fairing is the upper part of the launch vehicle that covers payload. This payload is very sensitive because of the high speed of vehicle produces a lot of heat. Fairing bears all of it. The pressure ...
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What are the implications of claiming space heritage if you don't have it?
What would be the legal implications if a Company have claimed they have Spaceflight heritage for it's products, but the heritage was for the previous Company, which the owner shut it for legal ...
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Atomic oxygen and UV Radiation qualification tests for a cubesat
I'm the Assembly, Integration and Verification Engineer of a cubesat project developed by students. Currently I'm trying to create the specifications for our payloads upcoming (mon)atomic oxygen (ATOX)...
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What is actually happening in this full mission rehearsal of CAPSTONE's propulsion hardware?
NASA Ames's feature CAPSTONE’s CubeSat Prepares for Lunar Flight says CAPSTONE will use a hydrazine-fueled propulsion system during most of its three- to four- month journey to the Moon. This line of ...
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How many of these six military "orbital threat" techniques have been demonstrated in a (more or less) publicly recognized way?
If you are having a good day then under no circumstances should you read the US Defense Intelligence Agency's Challenges to Security in Space1 (Information cutoff date, January 2019) linked in Axios' ...
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How is the Max-Q of a spacecraft determined?
Maximum aerodynamic pressure of a spacecraft is the maximum force it's hull can withstand during flight. How is the Max-Q of a spacecraft determined? Other related ( optional) queries are: If Max-Q ...
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Why wasn't there a 2nd attempt for the Viking-DS (VDS) test payload before the real Viking 1 and 2 were launched?
Per Gunter's Space Page for Viking-DS (VDS): Viking-DS or VDS (Viking Dynamic Simulator) was a vehicle evaluation payload, which was to represent the dynamic properties of the Viking spacecraft. It ...
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Longest static fire?
What is the longest duration for a static fire of a complete rocket stage? Initially I wanted to ask this for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy I found a 10 second static fire for Falcon Heavy - https://...
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What is it about parachutes that makes people always want to "re-invent the wheel"?
For technology that involves complex engineering issues, standardization and specialization is extremely helpful. If I want to design a complex ASIC IC I don't design it from scratch, I just drag-and-...
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