Delta IV engine test schedule unaffected by blade failure

Jim Mathews ([email protected]) November 20, 2000
A fuel pump turbine blade failed in a Boeing Rocketdyne RS-68 rocket engine on a Mississippi test stand, Boeing confirms, but engine damage was "quite limited" and the incident hasn't stalled plans for a new round of tests on an RS-68 mated to the new Delta IV's common booster core. Boeing...

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