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In-flight repair methods for Space Shuttle panels.(Aerospace)
Advanced Ceramics Report, May, 2004
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reports that it has made significant progress in developing a practical in-flight repair method for reinforced carbon-carbon composite (CCC) panels for reusable spacecraft. Specifically, the space agency has developed a repair system for the CCC panels that envelop the underside of the wings of the Space Shuttle.
A hole in one of the Space Shuttle's CCC panels--caused by an estimated 750 g (1.67 pounds) piece of insulating foam from the reusable spacecraft's external tank impacting with one of the spacecraft's wings--is what investigators have decided was the initial cause of the destruction of the Columbia spacecraft during re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere on 1 February 2003. The hole in the CCC...
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