Sentences with phrase «liquid oxygen as»

These vessels seem innocuous at first, but at the fair they are holding liquid oxygen as it boils and evaporates in room temperature air.

Note also that the reusable XLR99 engine used anhydrous ammonia and liquid oxygen as propellants and powered the X-15.

The use of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellant is an integral part of the entire Mars Base Camp (MBC) architecture, the company representatives said.

Not exact matches

As you chill the methane and oxygen below its liquid point, you get a fairly meaningful density increase — you get on the order of 10 % to 12 % density increase, which makes quite a big difference for the propellant load.

Two years ago Musk showed a photo of BFR's fuel tank, capable of holding «1200 tons of liquid oxygen,» as a part of SpaceX's early announcements about the rocket.

The rocket's fuel, a mix of rocket - grade kerosene known as RP - 1 and liquid oxygen, is highly flammable.

The Nigeria Air Force is taking giant strides in its fight against Boko Haram as Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar was at Yola to commission a liquid oxygen plant.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

A third route, known as pyrolysis, heats dried and ground biomass to about 550 ˚C in an oxygen - depleted chamber (so the biomass doesn't burn), producing a mixture of gases, liquids, and a gray, carbon - rich solid called coke.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

He reckons the oxygen concentration inside should be 30 to 40 percent, and he envisions using the spacecraft's liquid water store as a barrier between the Mars pioneers and the sun.

The shuttle is comprised of three components: the orbiter (the aeroplane - like crew - and cargo - carrying craft that most people think of as the shuttle); a large external tank (ET) that holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel; and two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) packed with powdered aluminium and rubber fuel.

Life as we know it requires three primary ingredients: liquid water; a source of energy for metabolism; and the right chemical ingredients, primarily carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.

A direct descendent of the R - 7 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), the Soyuz - FG comprises a central «core» and four tapering, strap - on boosters, fueled by liquid oxygen and a highly refined form of rocket - grade kerosene, known as «RP - 1.»

The liquid condensed at the bottom evaporates creating local cooling and rises; the way ocean water and all water does from the surface as an enormous pool of evaporative phase change refrigerant for the surface (and the atmospheric bath of nitrogen / oxygen).

I mean that if column of meter square by 10 meters high of liquid air [Oxygen and Nitrogen] it has same mass as column air meter square which goes from Earth surface to edge of space.

The paper, «Reconstruction of past atmospheric CO2 concentrations by ice core analysis», acknowledges that, due to impurities, liquid water can exist as low as -50 deg C. Diffusion of CO2 into this water, due to its far higher solubility than nitrogen and oxygen, will partially deplete the CO2 from trapped air bubbles.