I ran across this interesting bit of "Program Critical Hardware". Can you guess what it is?
Greg
U.S. Manned Space Program
I ran across this interesting bit of "Program Critical Hardware". Can you guess what it is?
Greg
Wielder Of the Skillet Of Harsh Discipline, Potentate of Perilous Pans
First guess would be something related to Space Ship Two.Originally Posted by GregGleason
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Nice try! But this is not related to Space Ship Two.
Greg
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Casting tooling.
Jeroen
U.S. Manned Space Program
Congratulations!
I guess it helps to have a professional background for this kind of thing, but a "win is a win"!
Greg
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So if I'm understanding this properly, this whole structure is solid rocket propellant?
Born Again TRF-er
Not quite. It's the mold into which they will pour solid rocket propellant. Those vanes will create slots in the motor core to increase the surface area of the burn.
Nick DeBrita
Active Duty Navy E6/FC1
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Motor Usage 2012: 96,465 N.sec 18% Q
Will work for sparkies!!!
It looks like it might be used to create the core in the star portion of the grain in the space shuttle's SRB's.
U.S. Manned Space Program
The caption on the link:
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To provide additional thrust for the Ares I rocket, NASA engineers have designed a new 12-fin forward casting core. The 12-fin core is created by pouring propellant into an insulated and lined segment containing grain core tooling. The propellant mold is then inserted in to the solid rocket motor (SRM) casing. This creates open space in the center of the solid rocket which allows surface area for the propellant to burn.
Just Another Club Prez
At first I was gonna say it is the mixer blade for one heck of an EX project.
This would result in what is referred to as a Finocyl configuration?
Too young to be a BAR
Until I realized that the outboard stuff was fins not tubes, I though it looked like the aft end of a really really big Kraken.
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U.S. Manned Space Program
Correct.
For "light reading" on grain geometry with respect to the solid rockets for the Ariane 4, see this link:
http://dma.ing.uniroma1.it/users/lsa...rainDesign.pdf
Greg
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