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What if the "throttle down" part of the process doesn't engage for some reason? Is the fuel injection into the engine failsafe?
by iso1210 7y ago
What if the "throttle down" part of the process doesn't engage for some reason? Is the fuel injection into the engine failsafe?
- gpm 7y agoIf the "throttle down" before MaxQ fails? I would assume that Dragon would detect the anomaly and abort immediately, before the extra acceleration had time to increase velocity enough to cause an issue. Dragon doesn't need Falcon 9 to throttle down to abort, the Falcon 9 needs to slow down a bit during MaxQ, but the instantaneous acceleration of the Falcon 9 during abort isn't supposed to matter.
- iso1210 7y agoThe immediate abort would then have to life the dragon away from a fully accelerating F9