Randall Clague wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:06:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A commercial venture that wants to operate year round will need to
heat the tanks to keep the peroxide from freezing.
</color> Or at least fill the tanks from a larger reservoir, whose temperature is
actively maintained, soon enough before launch that cooldown is
negligible.
Strikes me as simpler to have the heater aboard the vehicle. Wrapping
the peroxide tank in the kind of heating tape used on dew caps would
probably be sufficient. Power would be from a huffer, per standard
(airplane) practice.
This makes procedures simpler (fuel whenever, fly whenever after
fuelling), but not the vehicle: it adds another component to what has to
fly.
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