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Spacecraft Fire Experiment I
- danielvf 11y agoTdlr: No One has ever tested how fires bigger than matches behave in space. Since it would be stupid to make a big fire in the space station, the inside of a cargo spaceship will be rigged with a dozen materials to light on fire before the cargo ship burns up entering the atmosphere.
- subinsebastien 11y agoActually, a rectangular card of significant size inside the experiment module will only be set on fire, not the entire cargo. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/Saffire2.png http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
- mirimir 11y agoWell: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5978305/fighting-a-fire-aboard-the-mir-space-station http://io9.gizmodo.com/5978305/fighting-a-fire-aboard-the-mi...
- anateus 11y agoI had to google around to find this out, but looks like this will be performed in the Cygnus craft that results from Orbital ATK's flight Cygnus CRS OA-6 which is expected to launch on March 22 (PDT, it's the 23rd UTC).
- gulpahum 11y agoThere is a Galactica '78 episode about a massive fire in space :) . It isn't scientifically accurate, though. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519742/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519742/
- SeanDav 11y agoI would have thought that this could be modelled accurately in computer simulations and tested in far smaller scale.
- wheaties 11y agoModels are only as good as the assumptions that underpin them. Real life tends to do surprising things.
- Retric 11y agoFire is really hard to model accurately. PS: It also looks cool, so IMO people would be messing with it even if they could model it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdD7lfB0Fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdD7lfB0Fs
- CarolineW 11y agoMore discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11296795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11296795