NASA is entering an era of expanded space activity. Space-based transportation systems will carry cargo and humans from low earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit, to lunar bases, and to the Martian surface. Support of these future missions will require new, long lived, on-orbit systems using subcritical cryogens for propellants and life support systems. Such on-orbit systems present low gravity fluid management challenges of long term storage and efficient fluid transfer and supply techniques. Development of these cryogenic systems requires on-orbit experimentation to demonstrate the capability of performing these fluid management tasks and to obtain the engineering data base required to correlate analytical tools used for system design.


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    Title :

    COLD-SAT: Cryogenic On-Orbit Liquid Depot-Storage, Acquisition and Transfer


    Publication date :

    1989-07-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English