Quote from: robertross on 08/22/2010 01:06 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 08/21/2010 05:25 pmQuote from: zaitcev on 08/18/2010 06:16 pmSaw a funny picture without an explanation in NK forum. Rumor mongering at its finest!Quote from: Salo on 08/18/2010 09:28 pmTheoristos from NK forum:http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=627466#627466QuoteIt is torn at check of the maximum superfluous inner pressure and then crumpled to place on a platform.I have it on good authority via a source that this was a successful static pressure test article of the Taurus II fuel tank. It burst just above the predicted pressure.The photo was clearly taken without permission.Thanks for that clarification Chris. Athough I have to wonder if that is the correct structural effect of over pressurization. It almost looks like it crumped inwards from low internal pressure. Strange effect, but I'll take your sources word on the cause.To me it also looks IMploded. But perhaps it was under some vertikal load and folded like a crushed softdrink can after EXploding.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 08/21/2010 05:25 pmQuote from: zaitcev on 08/18/2010 06:16 pmSaw a funny picture without an explanation in NK forum. Rumor mongering at its finest!Quote from: Salo on 08/18/2010 09:28 pmTheoristos from NK forum:http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=627466#627466QuoteIt is torn at check of the maximum superfluous inner pressure and then crumpled to place on a platform.I have it on good authority via a source that this was a successful static pressure test article of the Taurus II fuel tank. It burst just above the predicted pressure.The photo was clearly taken without permission.Thanks for that clarification Chris. Athough I have to wonder if that is the correct structural effect of over pressurization. It almost looks like it crumped inwards from low internal pressure. Strange effect, but I'll take your sources word on the cause.
Quote from: zaitcev on 08/18/2010 06:16 pmSaw a funny picture without an explanation in NK forum. Rumor mongering at its finest!Quote from: Salo on 08/18/2010 09:28 pmTheoristos from NK forum:http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=627466#627466QuoteIt is torn at check of the maximum superfluous inner pressure and then crumpled to place on a platform.I have it on good authority via a source that this was a successful static pressure test article of the Taurus II fuel tank. It burst just above the predicted pressure.The photo was clearly taken without permission.
Saw a funny picture without an explanation in NK forum. Rumor mongering at its finest!
Theoristos from NK forum:http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=627466#627466QuoteIt is torn at check of the maximum superfluous inner pressure and then crumpled to place on a platform.
It is torn at check of the maximum superfluous inner pressure and then crumpled to place on a platform.
September Taurus II update.
I apologize for the low-qual pics, but here's the first Taurus II Stage 1 core leaving the Yuzhmash plant in Dniepropetrovsk headed for Wallops via the Port of Wilmington.
Mr. Kyle's excellent reference site estimates it as 28.3m.
Quote from: Antares on 10/09/2010 03:38 pmMr. Kyle's excellent reference site estimates it as 28.3m.According to the manual its 27.6 m (90.6 ft) long.
Quote from: Antares on 10/09/2010 03:38 pmMr. Kyle's excellent reference site estimates it as 28.3m.About 4 meters shorter than a Zenit 3 first stage, guesstimating. - Ed Kyle
Didn't the NK-33 use subcooled LOX back in the day anyway?
Rankine? Oh man!