HIAD Facility - Application: Aerospace
Explosion accident while testing liquid water turbo-pump - A fire occurred during testing of a turbine pump which is a part of a rocket engine. On the day of the incident, seven seconds after the rpm…
An explosion occurred at testing facility of a space rocket engine. The incident occurred when executing a test studying the performance of a hydrogen gas flow measuring system for fuel feeding…
An explosion occurs during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.
An explosion occurred at testing equipment of a fuel-feeding system for a space rocket engine. According to the original source of this event, now lost, the test envisaged a 42 MPa high-pressure…
The last flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger ended 73 seconds after the launch in an explosive burn of hydrogen and oxygen propellants that destroyed the External Tank and exposed the Orbiter to…
The event occurred in a support building at a test stand complex. The explosion destroyed two support buildings and severely damaged a large amount of equipment. No one was injured.Gaseous hydrogen…
The accident occurred in a testing site for space equipment. The high pressure combustion took place in a liquid hydrogen tank (H2) under a high pressure and in presence of 12 m (700 kg) of liquid H2…
A leak of hydrogen gas, followed by an explosion, occurred when an engine was loaded with air, oxygen, and hydrogen, and then started for a preliminary ramjet engine combustion test. The engine was…
The event occurred in a university research building dedicated to the study of the take-off of space launchers . An operator gave the alarm during the hydrogen pressure pre-setting phase. he had seen…
A hydrogen leak occurred on a flange located on a pipe coming from the hydrogen storage tank. The staff was confined and the Internal Operation Plan was launched.Helium was injected in the tank and…