Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!exiphm
From: exiphm@eutrc3.UUCP (h.munk)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Orbiter tiles affected by rain?
Summary: Shuttle tiles affected by high velocity raindrops
Message-ID: <685@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 07:20:12 GMT
References: <1015@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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I remember reading about the shuttle tiles being affected by raindrops
and even fog droplets. It's somewhere in the report on the Challenger
accident. It was stated there that drops could strip the ntiles from
the orbiter, not only on reentry, but also during abort, return to launch site.

If you're interested, I'll look it up (I don't have a copy of the report
in my office)

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