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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: New (!?!?!?!) Shuttle Computers
Message-ID: <3361@phred.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 14:03:46 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.235853.6842@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>..... but there's hardly any
>fundamentally new technology in the IUS.  It's a very ordinary two-stage
>solid rocket.

Well what would you have designers put into a solid rocket booster
besides stronger, lighter (composites) casings and new electronics?
Those items are not trivial. The fuel? They've probably optimized solid
rocket propellant to burn the way they like it. What else are you looking
for in a solid rocket motor? -- P.J.