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I'm not aware of any modern US rockets (other than SpaceX) that install COPV tanks inside LO2 fuel tanks. SpaceX is certainly getting a performance gain from th
by electric0 10y ago
I'm not aware of any modern US rockets (other than SpaceX) that install COPV tanks inside LO2 fuel tanks. SpaceX is certainly getting a performance gain from the design at the risk of these kind of thermal related failure modes. I hope they figure out how mitigate these failure modes as a COPV exploding inside a LO2 tank is scary! Especially once they start flying humans on-board in 2018 or 2019.