Re: H-2A launch failure

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry Spencer) wrote:

>A new aircraft design is test-flown many times, systematically exploring
>the flight envelope (to significantly beyond normal operational limits)
>and debugging the individual flight vehicles, before it carries its first
>real payload.  Ground testing and simulation are considered useful
>supplements to this, but not a substitute for it. 

On the other hand, a new submarine usually goes right for the limit of
it's envelope within the first few weeks of testing.

Why exactly must rockets follow the aviation model when they aren't
aircraft?

D.
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