I attended Makin’ Orbit ‘93, a space technology conference in Berkeley, CA in January of that year. By this time I’d giving up on getting VC funding for my own SSTO designs and did not have confidence that liquid fuel rocket development could be done safely as amateurs, given the propellants needed to reach orbit.
I [...]
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High-concentration hydrogen peroxide availability and handling
Published by May 5th, 2008 in History. 0 Comments[[ Editor's Note:
This post is taken from "In-flight Propellant Transfer Spaceplane Design and Testing Considerations", AIAA 95-2955, by Captain Mitchell Burnside Clapp (*), Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117
http://www.risacher.org/bh/bh-paper1.html
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Hydrogen peroxide is not currently available at 98% concentration in the United States. It may, however, be produced from 70% concentration peroxide, which is a commodity item, [...]
While trolling through the old E.R.P.S. 2002 Data CD info, I came across this drawing of the K.I.S.S. engine that was done in Aug 2001. The comment block indicates it was done by “C. Frank”, who I vaguely remember being in E.R.P.S. only long enough to do this one drawing. The original PDF document was [...]
Came across this in a quick search for Alex on the Agena Primary Propulsion System. It’s the July 1964 Lockheed report to NASA. Seems pretty detailed on first glance. The Forward (Page iii) says:
This Propulsion Subsystem Engineering Analysis Report is produced by Lockheed Missiles and Space Company for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency and [...]