China's Space Program News Thread
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Debris can be a serious issue. The Columbia 2003 disaster was due to a piece of debris falling off and damaging the lander. They ignored it for 20 years until it became a fatal problem. If there is more vibration than expected, it needs a thorough investigation.
Agreed. The piece of debris that holed the Columbia was a piece of foam. Don't underestimate what can happen with that much energy involved.
Hendrik_2000
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Cool photo
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That is a monster of a fairing.
AssassinsMace
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I noticed it on the cone of one of the boosters before they separated but I have no idea if it was paint. Paint is harmless. If I recall correctly it was ice that fell off the space shuttle and caused damage.
On that note I have this at my house:
The kids and I will be taking it apart tonight and then keeping it updated with actual progress in orbit.
Plan here:
I changed it slightly to better match the most recent CG of the station I can find, but it's probably still off. Further work is ongoing to make it mimic the real thing better.
I was laughing at you making shit up.
Comparing the actual real foam debris falling off Columbia and imaginary "paint" (lololololololol) falling off LM-5, is not the same. Even if the paint falling off part is real btw you guys are idiots for believing this is how it works, it doesn't "fall off"... paint becoming debonded from a surface due to heat is no longer a solid. Even if it was a piece of chipped off cracked paint 1mm or so thick (arbitrary assumption), that piece would have less than 0.1% of the KE compared to that piece of foam in the Columbia incident.
No amount of vibration can remove set paint that wouldn't tear the entire vehicle apart into literally a million plus pieces.
Learn some basic physics.
First off... made up "paint falling off"
Secondly, paint doesn't "fall off"
Third even if a defective paint somehow has cracked and actually fallen off as a solid piece, it would have nowhere close to enough energy to do even a single scratch let alone penetrate the material. The foam for Columbia is different and I don't want to explain that physics because it's clear even the more basic stuff isn't being understood.
Do you really think a giant >1m^2 piece of paint somehow cracked off due to "vibrations" and remained solid? At most it would be 1cm^2 or so even if we assume that's true. Never before has paint chips been an issue in China or abroad. The paint coat on the rocket isn't just your everyday stuff. They've been launching vehicles for 50 years and not one has been scratched by falling paint lol.
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