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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    Title :

    Cryogenic technology: contributor to Space Shuttle achievement


    Additional title:

    Kaelteerzeugende Technologie: ein Beitrag zur Vollendung des Space-Shuttle


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Electronic Progress ; 23 , 4 ; 3-9


    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    7 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English






    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