Comments on: NASA Outlines Fix for New Moon Rocket’s Vibrations: Giant Springs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:24:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/comment-page-1/#comment-60167 Brian Too Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:14:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/#comment-60167 Wow, that's gotta hurt a NASA engineer somewhere. 1600 pounds of weights in an active mass damper? That 1600 pounds comes right out of payload capacity (with a steep multiplier effect to orbit). They get to dump it along with the entire first stage when stage 1 burns out, but still. Ouch! I guess they had to fix the problem somehow. Wow, that’s gotta hurt a NASA engineer somewhere. 1600 pounds of weights in an active mass damper? That 1600 pounds comes right out of payload capacity (with a steep multiplier effect to orbit). They get to dump it along with the entire first stage when stage 1 burns out, but still. Ouch!

I guess they had to fix the problem somehow.

]]> By: antoniosaunders8 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/comment-page-1/#comment-52141 antoniosaunders8 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:45:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/#comment-52141 Nice post :P Keep up the great work!! Nice post :P Keep up the great work!!

]]> By: ssa dj jf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/comment-page-1/#comment-20308 ssa dj jf Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:38:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/20/nasa-outlines-fix-for-moon-rocket-vibrations-giant-springs/#comment-20308 well great news! well great news!

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