Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!shamash!nis!viper!dave From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Heavy Lift Capacity Boosters Message-ID: <1402@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Date: 22 Sep 88 18:59:30 GMT References: <677@eplrx7.UUCP> <2240@ssc-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN Lines: 19 In article <2240@ssc-vax.UUCP> eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) writes: > >By varying the number of segments in the SRBs and the >number of SSMEs used, you can get different payloads. For reference, >the Space Shuttle uses two 4-segment SRBs and 3 SSMEs. How can you vary the number of segments in the SRBs? Wouldn't that change the combustion-chamber pressure rather drasticaly? -- If you can't convince | David Messer - (dave@Lynx.MN.Org) them, confuse them. | Lynx Data Systems -- Harry S Truman | | amdahl --!bungia!viper!dave | hpda / Copyright 1988 David Messer -- All Rights Reserved This work may be freely copied. Any restrictions on redistribution of this work are prohibited.