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You probably know this, but one can quite successfully skip the kerosene entirely and just use peroxide as a monopropellant with a silver catalyst. Presumably
by justin66 7y ago
You probably know this, but one can quite successfully skip the kerosene entirely and just use peroxide as a monopropellant with a silver catalyst.
Presumably Hughes's belief system demanded that all his silver exist in coin form, hoarded and buried in the backyard, or something.
- wolf550e 7y ago117 seconds specific impulse [1] is miserable. It is possible [2] to reach orbit with that, but not efficiently. 1 - http://www.astronautix.com/h/h2o2.html http://www.astronautix.com/h/h2o2.html 2 - https://space.stackexchange.com/a/8720 https://space.stackexchange.com/a/8720