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).


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    Titel :

    Cryogenic technology: contributor to Space Shuttle achievement


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Kaelteerzeugende Technologie: ein Beitrag zur Vollendung des Space-Shuttle


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    Electronic Progress ; 23 , 4 ; 3-9


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1981


    Format / Umfang :

    7 Seiten


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch






    Cryogenic Technology Base for Space Shuttle

    T. W. Winstead / A. L. Worlund | NTIS | 1970


    Cryogenic technology base for space shuttle

    Winstead, T. W. / Worlund, A. L. | NTRS | 1970