Tests Show Japan's H-IIA Flew Five Times With Flawed Nozzle
The answers to one mystery have raised another for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Tests with a solid rocket motor originally assembled for the eighth mission of the H-IIA confirmed JAXA's hypothesis that a defective nozzle design caused the booster-casing burn-through blamed in...
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