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From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST
Summary: Cooling leak
Message-ID: <15777@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 8 May 89 23:55:19 GMT
References: <1989May8.033250.18780@utzoo.uucp>
Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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In article <1989May8.033250.18780@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
| Discovery lands after highly successful mission. [...]
|  [...] A small
| leak in the #1 engine's cooling system was found, which permitted a bit
| of hydrogen to leak into the exhaust; it definitely was not there before
| launch.  The engine will be replaced before Discovery flies again in
| August.  There was an earlier pinhole leak in a similar area of an engine
| flown on STS-26, although the two do not seem related.  The next mission
| (Atlantis) is not expected to be affected.

Is this a similar problem to the cooling problem that caused the first
launch attempt of Atlantis to be scrubbed?  If so 3 failures in this
one system seems fairly high.

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