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Originally Posted by samwichse
I wonder what the failure rate for their "one big part" is vs traditional methods... like, porous spots in the print, etc?
Sam
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Probably the same for the solids on the shuttle, statistically 1 failure per 100 launches.*
Porous just makes the burn accelerate in odd ways and can lead to skin burn throughs: so boom , too much thrust, not enough thrust, asymmetric thrust, whatever.