{"id":42127,"date":"2006-03-09T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/srb-test-fire-successful\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T13:43:01","slug":"srb-test-fire-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/srb-test-fire-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"SRB test fire successful"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATK Thiokol have successfully carried out a 123 second test fire of the technical evaluation motor (TEM-12) at their static test facility in Utah. <\/p>\n

With most of the NASA top management in attendance to watch the test \u2013 and meet with Thiokol to discuss CLV (Crew Launch Vehicle) options \u2013 the test article was used to collect data on environment impacts on the rocket motor parts.
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The static-fire test included 26 specific objectives and used 89 instrumentation channels to evaluate the motor\u2019s performance during the full scale test, which ran for the same duration a SRB would perform on a normal Shuttle launch.<\/p>\n

\u2018Test results will provide engineers unique information about motor components that have been exposed to the environment in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center,\u2019 said Jody Singer, manager of the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Project, part of the Space Shuttle Propulsion Office at NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. <\/font> <\/p>\n

\u2018Testing such as this is important to ensure continued quality and performance.\u2019 <\/font><\/p>\n

The results will be published in a report due at the end of the year. \u2018Preliminary data indicates that all test objectives were met,\u2019 noted an MSFC press release.\"\" <\/font><\/p>\n

ATK Thiokol will play a key role in NASA\u2019s future space flight vehicle range, with SRBs featuring on both the CLV and heavy lift CaLV. A first stage five segment SRB will feature on the CLV, with twin five segment SRBs on the CaLV.<\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Despite the loss of Shuttle Challenger due to an SRB fault, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin backed the SRB\u2019s safety record as highly reliable \u2013 given the amount of successful missions it has been involved with, omitting STS-51L.<\/p>\n

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ATK Thiokol have successfully carried out a 123 second test fire of the technical evaluation motor (TEM-12) at their static test facility in Utah. With most of the NASA top management in attendance to watch the test \u2013 and meet with Thiokol to discuss CLV (Crew Launch Vehicle) options \u2013 the test article was used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}