Provides a comprehensive description of the PRSA (Power Reactant Storage Assemblies). These tanks represent the state-of-the-art in cryogenic storage for manned space vehicles developed by Beech-Boulder over the past quarter century. The reusability of the tanks and the technical challenges this presented are of particular note for the Space Shuttle application. The PRSA consists of a set of vacuum-jacketed storage vessels (dewars); supply, fill and vent plumbing; electrical subsystems for instrumentation and internal heaters; and mounting provisions for installation into the mid-body fuselage of the Space Shuttle Orbiter. The assembly stores cryogenic oxygen and hydrogen in supercritical state (a single phase, very dense gas).
Cryogenic technology: contributor to Space Shuttle achievement
Kaelteerzeugende Technologie: ein Beitrag zur Vollendung des Space-Shuttle
Electronic Progress ; 23 , 4 ; 3-9
1981
7 Seiten
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
Space shuttle cryogenic technology review
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|Cryogenic technology base for space shuttle
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