Sentences with phrase «liquid oxygen tank»
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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.»
The liquid oxygen tank is probably the hardest piece of this whole vehicle because it's got ta handle propellant at the coldest level, and the tanks themselves actually form the airframe.
And below that is the liquid oxygen tank.
Unlike commercial planes, which can use the lower atmosphere's oxygen to give their fuel systems a boost, suborbital rocket planes use liquid oxygen tanks to compensate for the thin air and get the thrust they need.
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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.
An investigation found that the accident originated from a reaction in the rocket's second stage liquid oxygen fuel tank.
Kerosene and liquid oxygen travel from the tanks above, down through a pipe at the center.
The rocket has two solid - fuel boosters and a main tank that carries 173 tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen.
Once it filled its tank with liquid oxygen, it could light up the rocket engines and zoom to a height beyond the atmosphere of up to 120 miles.
The liquid hydrogen / oxygen (LH2 / LOX) fuel can be used to fill the tanks of manned vehicles travelling between Earth and Mars.
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.
Unlike a rocket, a scramjet does not need to carry tanks of liquid oxygen, making it potentially a much cheaper way to get into orbit.