A program was conducted to provide the technology base for the SS/RCS flight tankage. Through a combination of analysis, subscale testing and computer predictions, a surface tension acquisition/expulsion system design was developed for the Orbiter RCS application. A full-scale tank system was fabricated and ground verification testing was conducted. Cleaning, inspection, fill and drain, and one-g expulsion performance were demonstrated. Results show that the fine-mesh screen, compartmented tank system provides the performance, flexibility, reusability, and other characteristics required by the pulsing, high flowrate RCS. It provides the required expulsion under widely differing high-g boost abort and reentry vectors oriented 119 deg apart and during on-orbit operation under omnidirectional low-g conditions.


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    Title :

    Surface tension propellant acquisition system technology for Space Shuttle reaction control tanks


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Society of Automotive Engineers, Propulsion Conference ; 1975 ; Anaheim, CA


    Publication date :

    1975-09-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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