Apr 16 1980
From The Space Library
NASA reported shutdown of a planned 10-minute test of the Shuttle main-engine cluster after about six seconds; probable cause was overheating in a high-pressure fuel turbopump of engine no. 2 of the three-engine cluster, Test stand and engines were apparently undamaged. Had all gone well, each engine would have shut down at a different time: engine no. 1 was scheduled to fire for 8 minutes (480 seconds), no. 2 (which shut down after 4.71 seconds) for 565 seconds, and no. 3 for 591 seconds. Evaluation of test data was under way at NSTL to find the cause of the overheating. (NASA Release 80-50)
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