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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Failed Engine
Message-ID: <4074@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 21:52:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 21:52:24 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:19:34 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Engine Number 1 shut down in midburn today because both
primary and backup systems reported overheating in a
high-pressure turbo fuel pump; computers shut the engine
down to avoid danger of explosion, and mission control
instructed the crew to burn the other two engines at 104%
rated thrust for the duration of their fuel.  At the same
time, some of the hydrazine fuel for the OMS was dumped
to lighten the load.  There is plenty of OMS fuel left
for reentry and most of the scientific experiments, and
NASA is confident that the mission can continue for its
full seven days.