06-15-2020, 03:52 PM
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Dazed and Confused
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: TN
Posts: 11,624
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Originally Posted by BEC
Roman candle is a pretty good description of an A10-0T CATO. In every case I've had they've managed to light the sustainer in the process, so the rest of the flight actually proceeded pretty normally. In yesterday's case, the difference in apogee was only ~20% from a normal A10-0T to A3-4T flight and the one that had a CATO in the first stage.
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I've got a good photo of an A10 spinning in the air and burning from both ends after it chucked itself out of my Super Big Bertha. I parallel staged the D12 with a pair of A10's to help burn up a bunch of them I got on a Walmart clearance years ago. The other A10 is still burning straight and true along side the D12 in the pic. 
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