Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpf!lukas
From: lukas@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Lukas)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: SRB Separation?
Message-ID: <6320@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 88 17:47:35 GMT
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Reply-To: lukas@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Lukas,J.)
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In article <983@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
>	The SRB separation must occur when the thrust from the SRBs
>	exactly balances their own weight.  If they separate before

Not quite right, I think. You would want to do it when the acceleration
of each SRB alone matched that of the orbiter alone. Sounds logical,
which of course does not make it true :^).
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	John Lukas
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