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#8118
NASA holdraszállás körvonalak
Aluminium:
ez alapján: A kúpokkal volt a gond, amihez ezt az anyagot használták. "In both cases, the failure occurred in the payload fairing, a clamshell nosecone that protects the payload from the temperatures and pressures of launch, then separates and falls away once the payload is in orbit. In both launches, the fairing failed to separate." (...) "NASA's investigation has confirmed that this frangible joint was the problem. The manufacturer of the Taurus-XL rocket, Orbital Sciences Corporation, had been supplied extruded aluminium for this crucial part by SPI - which, as we now know, had forged the certification."