A Composite Booster Gets a Burst of Energy

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    This video shows four angles of the booster composite case’s sudden burst due to being over-pressurized with water. NASA and Orbital ATK engineers pushed the composite case to its breaking point to understand how well these materials could withstand the immense strains of a launch.

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