NASA-LLIS-0961
Lessons Learned – Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Component Test Facility: Simplicity of Design
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| Organization: | NASA |
| Publication Date: | 15 May 1995 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 2 |
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Description of Driving Event:
The SSME turbobpump test stand had approximately 2,000 valves, two dozen, which were servooperated. Facility preburner valves weighed as much as 5 tons for the 14,000 psi system. Facility problems were abundant. In one test, for example, a facility rotary flowmeter failed, releasing flowmeter blades into the LOX flow stream, causing a fire. A similar failure also occurred on a fuel facility subsystem.
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NASA-LLIS-0961
May 15, 1995
Lessons Learned – Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Component Test Facility: Simplicity of Design
Description of Driving Event:
The SSME turbobpump test stand had approximately 2,000 valves, two dozen, which were servooperated. Facility preburner valves weighed as much as 5 tons for the 14,000...
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