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Laser Profilometry Inspects Shuttle Thrusters

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Brent D. Johnson

After a space shuttle mission, technicians thoroughly inspect the vehicle for wear and tear, looking for the minute chips and hairline fractures that can result from supersonic impacts or from the plastic expansion and contraction of materials in the orbiter. Working with Laser Techniques Co. LLC of Bellevue, Wash., researchers at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico are developing a robotic scanner that reaches deep into the thrusters of a craft to document and map the development of such chips there. The space shuttle's primary reaction control system thrusters have been found...Read full article

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    Published: November 2003
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