Safety Test of an Improved Multihundred Watt FSA:Launch Abort,Solid Propellant Fire.

摘要

This safety test consisted of exposing a simulant-fueled Improved Multihundred Watt Fuel Sphere Assembly,containing a Pt-3008sphere holding the fuel simulant,to a single proximity fire of UTP-3001solid rocket propellant for 10.5min. The graphite outside shell sustained only minor abrasion damage. It was covered on one side with a heavy deposit of alumina from the fire mixed with silica from the test bed. The Pt-3008shell had small amounts of carbon,alumina,and silica deposited on its surface but sustained no other damage. The PT-3008sphere was not breached,and therefore the fuel sphere assembly would not release fuel in a solid-propellant fire of a launch abort. 12figures. (ERA citation 04:000399)