May 302019
Since I moved out here in 2004, I think until today I had skipped a grand total of one test of a Shuttle booster or one of the derivatives. I “meh’ed” on the test today of the “OmegA” test… and of course this was the test where things had to get interesting.
Had this occurred in flight, it might well not have had any meaningful impact on the mission. Thrust would have been substantially cut down, and possibly thrown a little off-axis, but it occurred so late in the burn – at about 120 seconds – that the effect would have been small.
Still: that there might be something they’ll want to take a look at.