Questions tagged [lox]
LOX (liquid oxygen) is pure oxygen kept at a temperature at which oxygen is a liquid, between approximately 54.4 K and 90.2 K (corresponding to -219 °C to -183 °C, or -362 °F to -297 °F). LOX can be used as an oxidizer in liquid-fuel rocket engines.
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Choice of Ammonia and oxygen as liquid rocket propellants in vortex combustion
I have been thinking lately about the benefits of using liquid ammonia and oxygen as rocket propellants, where ammonia is difficult to burn, what if in a fuel rich closed cycle, ammonia is used to ...
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Is there any satellite that uses LOX as oxidizer?
With Liquid Oxygen being used as an Oxidizer in Starship and some other rocket engines, I was curious if LOX was also used for propelling satellites as well.
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Propellant consumption of Starship trip from NRHO to Mars
People, I am trying to estimate the amount of propellant (liquid oxygen+ liquid methane) required by Starship to reach Mars from NRHO (Near-rectilinear halo orbit).
Also the propellant consumption ...
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Is it ever normal to vent LOX from spacecraft with active engines? Isn't it a fire hazard?
This is regarding:
"SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk says a propellant dump caused the destruction of the Starship upper stage"
"Musk said the failure was linked to venting liquid ...
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Has a rocket engine with LOX as the oxidizer ever fired beyond the GEO belt?
Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander is scheduled to launch in mid-February of this year. Notably, the lander uses liquid methane as fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidizer, and it will rely on this ...
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Anti-Geyser Test Full Scale
I am working on the thesis about Geysering and Recirculation in Launch Vehicles. And I am having some diffucilties to understand that "do we need to use full-scale model to test geysering?". ...
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How much of LOX will have to be generated for SpaceX Starship to get back from 16 Psyche?
Mixture ratio for Oxygen/Methane is 3.6 to 1
Liquid oxygen temperature of -183°C
16 Psyche (in shade) -113.15°C (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche)
Looks like the idea of bringing enough ...
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Propellant Density Calculation for LOX/Kero
I am trying to make sense of the equation for propellant density calculation, rho=(rw-1)/(rw/bo+1/bf).
Sutton, 7th edition, gives this equation (7-2) as:
$ \ \ \ \rho_{av} = \frac {\rho_o\rho_f(1+r)} {...
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Is the first stage LOX tank on the Falcon 9 monocoque or semi-monocoque?
In the Falcon 9 user guide manual it is noted that the first and second stage LOX tanks are monocoque. That means the tank is made of a single cylindrical shell. Is that possible? How can the first ...
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Relative location of RP1 and LOX tanks in Saturn V [duplicate]
In Saturn V, the 2nd and 3rd stages had their fuel tank located above the LOX tank, but in the first stage, the LOX tank was located above the fuel tank. Is it because the individual stages had their ...
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What is "anti-geysering" and why would you turn it off 70 seconds before launch?
Today Rocket Lab launched the Electron from Launch Complex 1 Pad A in New Zealand, and there was something about
...the first time a helicopter will be stationed in the recovery zone offshore to ...
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F1 engine turbopump
During the initial trials, the LOX pump part of turbopump of F1 engine had some problem with its vanes. They were damaging after approximately 110 seconds of operation. What was the problem and how ...
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How to estimate fuel needed to reach LEO, GEO, and L1 earth-moon? [closed]
I'm doing some calculations about fuel production on the moon.
To get a sense of order of magnitudes involved. I'd like to know how much fuel is required to get 1kg of mass to LEO, GEO, and L1 Earth-...
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Comparison of rocket engines using LH2 & LOX as propellants
I am a bit confused - If it is correct that RL 10 and LR 87-LH2 both were developed in 1950 by Aerojet, and both used LOX and LH2 as the propellants, if so, then why was there a huge difference in ...
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Was liquid ozone + fluorine ever tested as an oxidizer? Ever with jet fuel?
Searching for ozone layer circa 1957 I got Theoretical Rocket Performance of JP-4 Fuel with Mixtures of Liquid Ozone and Fluorine, NACA RM E56K14, Issue 58, Volume 63, Vearl N. Huff, Sanford Gordon. ...
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