'Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate'
With impressive speed and candor, Rocket Factory Augsburg has provided an update on the anomaly that caused last week's rocket firing at SaxaVord in Shetland, Scotland, to end explosively.to RFA's co-founder and COO, Dr Stefan Brieschenk, the plan had been to run the first stage's engines for 35 seconds until the fuel was depleted.
The horizontal jet of flame from the base of the stage was indicative of the severity of the damage. Brieschenk explained that the compromised engines had damaged the manifold to such an extent that kerosene began leaking from the vent lines.The kerosene fueled the fire. The flames grew more intense and eventually became an oxygen-fed blaze so severe that"large portions of engines were simply combusted.
Although Brieschenk said RFA was confident in the design of the offending turbopump, he also noted that more than 100 improvements were being made to the next first stage, which is currently under construction. Many of these improvements aim to prevent a repeat of the SaxaVord incident, where a single turbopump failure led to the loss of the entire stage.
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