Hydrogen-fueled rocket

PRELIMINARY TEST RESULTS ON A COMPRESSED MULTILAYER INSULATION SYSTEM FOR A LIQUID-HYDROGEN-FUELED ROCKET... 

Dimethylhydrazine 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine dihydrochloride Hydrazine carbonate Methylhydrazine Nitromethane SD alcohol 1 SD alcohol 3-A SD alcohol 3-C fuel, rocket/missile Hydrogen fuel, rockets... 

Externally Bonded and Sealed Insulation for Liquid-Hydrogen-Fueled Rocket Tanks (5) 131... 

EXTERNALLY BONDED AND SEALED INSULATION FOR LIQUID-HYDROGEN-FUELED ROCKET TANKS... 

It may be concluded, therefore, that nonmetallic, bonded, and sealed tank insulation designs can be made to meet the requirements of a variety of liquid-hydrogen-fueled rocket vehicles, including requirements as severe as those assumed herein. 

Helium is extensively used for filling balloons as it is a much safer gas than hydrogen. One of the recent largest uses for helium has been for pressuring liquid fuel rockets. A Saturn booster, like the type used on the Apollo lunar missions, required about 13 million fts of helium for a firing, plus more for checkouts. 

Alfred Stock (1876-1946) studied the hydrides of some of these metal-like elements. A hydride occurs when hydrogen gains (or shares) an electron rather than losing its single electron when it combines with metals or metallic-like elements. Stock spent years experimenting with boron hydrides (B Hg and BH ), which were used as hydrogen-based rocket fuels powerful enough to lift rockets into space. 

Table 3.3 gives the total uses of hydrogen. Ammonia production is by far the most important application, followed by methanol manufacture. Hydrogenations in petroleum refineries are an important use. Many other industries utilize hydrogen. Miscellaneous uses include hydrogenation of fats and oils in the food industry, reduction of the oxides of metals to the free metals, pure hydrogen chloride manufacture, and liquid hydrogen as rocket fuel. 

In the paper published in Explosivstoffe, Stettbacher gives thermodynamic data for al-cohol/oxygen and alcohol/hydrogen peroxide rocket fuels, the latter haviog only 1477kcal/1eg as heat of combustion... 

Liquid hydrogen fuel powers the rockets of the U.S. space shuttle. 

Concentrated (88-86%) hydrogen peroxide. It is employed in liquid fuel rocket engines as -> Oxidizer or, after catalytic decomposition, as -> Monergoi. For its explosive properties, see Haeuseler, Explosiv-stoffe 1, pp. 6-68 (1953). 

Liquid hydrogen is used to fuel rockets, satellites, and spacecrafts. 

The exothermic reaction between liquid hydrazine (N2H2) and liqnid hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is used to fuel rockets. The products of this reaction are nitrogen gas and water. 

By 1985 or 1986 the Orient Express idea had morphed into the military s National Aerospace Plane (NASP) project a single-stage suborbital hydrogen-fueled airplane-rocket combination that could reach any point... 

NASP was to be used as an experimental vehicle to test high-risk technologies for Reagan s Strategic Defense Initiative, but also to ferry men and equipment to future space stations more economically than could be done with the Space Shuttle. It would take off like a conventional airplane. Hydrogen-fueled, air-breathing scramjet (supersonic combustion ram jet) engines would push it at speeds of up to Mach 25 to the almost-vac-uum of near space, where rocket power would provide the final push needed to reach a space station. 

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