A passive propellant acquisition and feed system is disclosed which acquires and feeds gas-free propellant in low or zero-g environments during orbital maneuvers and retains this propellant under high axially directed acceleration such as may be experienced during launch of a space vehicle and orbit-to-orbit transfer is described. The propellant system includes a dual compartment propellant tank with independent surface tension acquisition channels in each compartment to provide gas-free flow of pressurized liquid propellant from one compartment to the other in one direction only.
Passive Propellant System
1978
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
NTRS | 1979
|NTRS | 1978
|NTIS | 1978
|Criteria for passive propellant control schemes.
NTRS | 1969
|Criteria for passive propellant control schemes
AIAA | 1969
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