https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/next-atlas-5-launch-delayed-indefinitely/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 02:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/next-atlas-5-launch-delayed-indefinitely/#comment-876609 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 02:32:10 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=38667#comment-876609 I agree with Dick. Most likely they are having problems understanding what happened to cause premature shutdown. Was something different done with this rocket versus the others, or was it a failure mode that pre-launch testing somehow doesn’t uncover?

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/next-atlas-5-launch-delayed-indefinitely/#comment-876361 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:04:37 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=38667#comment-876361 You could be right that ULA has uncovered something lurking in the design/construction of the Atlas V that will prove non-trivial and time-consuming to fix. I think it’s even more likely, though, that their silence is indicative of not being able to, thus far, nail down a cause for the early 1st stage engine shut-off. Something out of the ordinary happened. But ferreting out just what that was may well prove quite difficult or even impossible to discover.

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