B18.3

Test tanks

B18.3

RetiredBuilt atStarbase, TXCryotests19

Final state

Retired

Notes

B18.3 is a booster test article dedicated to one of its major elements: the hot-staging interstage. It went through a huge number of cryo tests. During one of them the prototype suffered a major rupture of the common dome, but it was repaired and sent back to continue testing with new elements: a mini transfer tube and mounts to test the grid fin attachment points. Tests still ongoing.

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