Well,
We had a breathtaking launch last night, since that fuel cell (read electrical short) problem right at liftoff took out a primary main engine controller (computer) on the center engine, but the back-ups performed quite well. The main engine cut-off velocity fell short by 16 feet per second of the desired velocity, indicating we ran out of gas. That's not good and unexpected, so an army of folks will hunt this one down. Columbia essentially used all of the fuel reserves, and still came up short (1300 gallons of additional prop used unexpectedly).
Bottomline, we ran out of gas and still have mission success so the gods are smiling favorably on Columbia.
BTW, I PM'd my e-mail address to you, Blue - hope it worked,
Hans |
