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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: SRB Tests Inconclusive
Message-ID: <2257@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Oct-83 11:12:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 23 11:12:54 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 01:20:30 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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What they would do in the event of an SRB malfunction depends
on where they are in the ascent.  If they were to turn around
and attempt a landing at KSC, the entire assembly would probably
be shed and, when they were clear of it, destroyed by range
safety.  If they were high enough to achieve orbit on only the
main engines, just the SRB's would be shed and destroyed.
If they were to try and land at Rota, Spain, or Dakar, Senegal,
they would again need the main engine, so just the SRB's would
be jettisoned.