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- From: rkolker@nuchat.sccsi.com (Rich Kolker)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle's rocket booster question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.001722.11060@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.
- References: <17270@mindlink.bc.ca> <4021@phred.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:17:22 GMT
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- In article <4021@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis) writes:
- >In article <17270@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
- >>
- >> I believe that the RCS thrusters also have the capability of
- >>performing a de-orbit burn if the OMS system is non-functional.
- >>
- >This is true. The aft RCS thrusters can be used for de-orbit burn. Just
- >takes several minutes, 3.5 times longer than an OMS burn, to do it. OMS
- >fuel can also be cross-fed to the RCS thrusters.
- >
- >Peter Jarvis.........
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- OMS fuel can be crossfed to the aft RCS thrusters. The forward RCS
- are on their own.
- .
- ++rich
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- rich kolker rkolker@sccsi.com
- It's been a long, long time
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