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From: goldader@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Jeff Goldader)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle escape systems
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Date: 25 Oct 89 03:49:39 GMT
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In article <2815@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes:
>
>I read somewhere that that there is a quick-disconnect procedure for the
>SRB's. Once initiated, it then takes a few seconds for it to occur. There
>is a manual SRB disconnect switch on the center console between the Commander
>and Pilot, but I don't know the criteria for its use.
>
The "quick-disconnect" procedure and the associated manual sep switches
for the SRBs are for use if the SRBs fail to separate automatically at
the end of their burn.  The system is not intended as a way to sep a
malfunctioning SRB from the shuttle.  As has been mentioned here e**n
times before, bad, bad things would happen if a SRB separated before it
should, and, as you might be able to imagine, bad things would also 
happen if a spent SRB failed to separate.

Jeff Goldader                        University of Hawaii
goldader@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu      Institute for Astronomy

"So, Lonestar, now you see that Evil will always win- because Good is stupid."
-The Dark Lord Dark Helmet, _SPACEBALLS_ 

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