Comments on: Scaled statement on SS2 accident investigation http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/08/02/scaled-statement-on-ss2-accident-investigation/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Peter http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/08/02/scaled-statement-on-ss2-accident-investigation/comment-page-1/#comment-295777 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:56:47 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=684#comment-295777 As of August 18th Scaled has hired SpaceDev to assist in the development and production of their rocket motor.

It’s interesting that despite their efforts to keep the motor in-house this time they’ve decided to bring SpaceDev in again but I think this is a good move. Without Benson at the helm I guess Burt decided to give them another chance.

http://www.scaled.com/news/SPDV-8-15-08.pdf

]]> By: Berger Bruno http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/08/02/scaled-statement-on-ss2-accident-investigation/comment-page-1/#comment-284646 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:46:20 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=684#comment-284646 I cannot believe they used composite tanks without metallic liner :-( to store an oxidizer like N2O, which likes to saturate hydrocarbons and turns them into something unpredictable. Very sad they didn’t issued a detailed analysis of the incident, even if they don’t know exactly what happened (which is my impression now). This would help others to avoid similar catastrophes.

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