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[i]This gives us a validation. It anchors the [computer] models. We have these very detailed CFD — Computer Fluid Dynamics — models that model our trajectory, model the abort as the engine fires. We can look at the attitude control system as it fires in great detail. And from these models we learn very interesting things, how the atmosphere — we talk about how the air going by at 600 miles, it actually bends the plumes — and we see that in CFD models. What this [test] does is we will get a set of data points that anchors the models and then gives us more confidence in the rest of the computer models we are doing. Once we anchor the models, we have more confidence to use models to look at the performance during the other possible conditions you would abort from.[/i]
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