NASA Supports Burst Test for Orbital Reef Commercial Space Station

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And the one thing we'd want to know isn't mentioned: what overpressure caused the burst, and how does that relate to pressure in space for use.

Ok two things: what would a point pressure event (ie needle on a balloon) do to change the outcome and how does that relate to space deployment.

My understanding is that crew are trained to deal with "point pressure events" on board space vehicles. There are a variety of contingency plans for this sort of thing (once briefly shared a cube with a Bigelow Aerospace alum and he talked for hours about space station pressure vessels) ranging from Whipple shields to various "super glue" or "duct tape" remedies that may be applied.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-monitoring-increased-leak-in-russ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape

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