Aeronautics and astronautics – Spacecraft – With fuel system details
Patent
1995-07-17
1998-10-20
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Spacecraft
With fuel system details
244135R, 244162, 60259, B64G 140
Patent
active
058234780
ABSTRACT:
One of the propellants used in a bipropellant rocket engine has a vapor pressure sufficiently high under prevailing condition to generate vapor at a pressure sufficiently high to pressurize both the volatile component and the second rocket propellant and provide substantially the sole means for forcing the two rocket propellants from their storage to the rocket engine. In the preferred arrangement, both the components will be stored within the same pressure vessel, one preferably being contained within an expandable/collapsible bladder.
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Barefoot Galen L.
The University of British Columbia
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