Space Station propulsion - Advanced development testing of the water electrolysis concept at MSFC
Conference
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OSTI ID:5649212
The successful demonstration at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) that the water electrolysis concept is sufficiently mature to warrant adopting it as the baseline propulsion design for Space Station Freedom is described. In particular, the test results demonstrated that oxygen/hydrogen thruster, using gaseous propellants, can deliver more than two million lbf-seconds of total impulse at mixture ratios of 3:1 to 8:1 without significant degradation. The results alao demonstrated succcessful end-to-end operation of an integrated water electrolysis propulsion system.
- OSTI ID:
- 5649212
- Report Number(s):
- AIAA-Paper-89-2615; CONF-8907118-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 25. American Society of Mechanical Engineers joint propulsion conference, Monterey, CA (USA), 10-13 Jul 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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