Wow! Now it’s a live testing that completed the SCRAMJET (Superonic Combustion RAMJET) engine testing! This is a monumental stage folks! In the aerospace world, trying to provide engines that could burn fuel at supersonic (internally!) speeds have been very very very hard (nearly 30 years of testing and theories!) so to me, this is a superb news!!
Working for government can be stressful
So with the OMS pod blanket damage, we’ve been super busy delivering all kinds of data, querying CFD solutions like there’s no tomorrow! Today was no different as a NASA customer requested for dynamic pressures at four corner points of the affected thermal blanket. Well, some …. difficulties arose. Provided points of interests were … to keep things simple, conflicting. And my lead engineer was almost panicking thinking that the data I acquired from the solutions for Mach 4 was… not so kosher. So we were putting lots of time to make sure and understand that the values I was providing were “reasonable”.
Time came to deliver the data just before I had to leave to go home so Soojin could go to work. Well, the NASA customer responded very fast with his estimates of the data! 😮 I freaked. I felt like I was taking something like SAT test or something of that significance!! When we finally compared the data, and saw hoe the two agreed very well, you wouldn’t believe my sense of relief!! Whew!! 😀 I was just feeling like a 5 tons of burden was lifted from my back! 😛 But it sure is stressful working for a government civil servant!
Crazily busy at work
Shoot… with STS-117 up in space, work appeared out of the blue!
It’s been hectic getting aerodynamic data on the OMS pod on the entry trajectory.
I am a bit tired as well… so no time for updating really… 🙁
But it’s a good thing. 😉
STS-117 Launch Tonight!
Please pray for safe and successful launch tonight at 6:38 pm Central Time!
This would be the first launch this year.