An attempt is made to identify technologies that could be brought to a state of minimal development risk in the near term, yet offer the potential for evolutionary growth consistent with future space station propulsion requirements. Prospective auxiliary propulsion propellants will be usable by other systems, thereby offering resupply benefits and a benign rather than corrosive or toxic handling environment. NASA programs are currently underway to develop the storage and supply methods for cryogenic liquids in orbit. The recovery of unused propellants from the Space Shuttle Orbiter and External Tank are being evaluated in order to define Shuttle modifications and performance penalties. Fluid management subsystem requirements and characteristics cannot, however, be fully defined until a firm mission scenario has been established and other space station subsystems are more clearly defined.


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    Titel :

    Propulsion and fluid management - Station keeping will eat energy on a new scale


    Beteiligte:
    Petrash, D. A. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1983-03-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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