Questions tagged [cryogenics]
Questions regarding use, design, storage, consumption, or other considerations of materials, propellants, systems, or biological samples stored and/or used under very low temperatures, often under larger than ambient pressure.
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Does ISRO's Cryogenic Upper Stage have restart capability?
Does the CUS of ISRO have restart capability?
If so why was it not tested in the recent GSLV-D5 flight? Maybe by restarting the stage after S/C release?
What enhancements are required to make a ...
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Why was the Shuttle's LOX tank on top of the LH2 tank, since that makes it more top-heavy?
The external tank for the shuttle contained tanks of liquid Oxygen and Hydrogen for the main engines to use. These two have similar (though not equal) volumes, but the Oxygen is heavier in an obvious ...
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Can I drink the water from the plumes of SSME?
Shuttle's SSME uses cryogenic Hydrogen(LHX) and Oxygen(LOX) as their propellent to give hot water vapour. If I somehow manage to get the exhaust plume and condense it to liquid, Can I drink it ...
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How are fuel tanks filled with cryogenic hydrogen?
Cryogenic hydrogen can react with the atmospheric Oxygen to produce an explosion:
as well as being cold enough to liquefy (and possibly solidify) atmospheric oxygen, which can be an explosion ...
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How long is it feasible to store cryogenic fuels?
Working with liquid nitrogen all day, I am constantly bothered by their boiling away, forcing me to go get more from the storage dewar. Likewise should be the case with any cryogen, e.g. LH2 and LOX ...
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Changes made to ISRO GSLV-D5's CUS and FBTP since GSLV-D3's LH2/LOX CUS failure to sustain ignition?
The launch of the ISRO GSLV-D5 launching India's GSAT 14 advanced communications satellite (weighing 1,980 kg) is slated for 19th of August, 2013, flying in the GSLV Mk.2 configuration with an Indian-...
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In a cryogenic fuel rocket, at what pressure is the fuel injected into the engine?
The pressure in the Space Shuttle's main engines must be very high to get the vehicle off the ground (with the SRB assist, of course). With such high pressures inside the engine, how do you inject ...
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