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And make sure that even in the most unhappy cases, you vent your tanks! Vent vent vent vent! Tank explosions are where the really nasty debris numbers come from
by mandevil 2y ago
And make sure that even in the most unhappy cases, you vent your tanks! Vent vent vent vent! Tank explosions are where the really nasty debris numbers come from.
- rx_tx 2y agoWhat do you do with the added deltaV from the venting? (not sure if significant) It could send the already-out of control rocket stage/object to a weirder or worse orbit, increasing the changes of collision.
- mandevil 2y agoIdeally you have several vents perpendicular to the orbital path and open them at the same time, so the vectors cancel out. That's the happy case. If, because we are in the sad case, we can't get that, it's still better to have one piece of debris versus thousands.
- gpm 2y agoShouldn't the happy case be "we know the orientation of the stage so we can vent in the direction we are travelling to accelerate deorbiting"?
- Filligree 2y agoThe deltaV will out, one way or the other. Venting is better than having it completely uncontrolled.
- Evidlo 2y agoVent for a while, then use the reaction wheels to flip and vent in the opposite direction.
- naikrovek 2y agoI’ll make sure I remind all of my satellite control room employee relatives. We all will, right?