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Oxygen in an NTR provides an ISP barely better than chemical rockets, and how reactive would 1500K oxygen be with your reactor? with the additional mass require
by valuearb 6y ago
Oxygen in an NTR provides an ISP barely better than chemical rockets, and how reactive would 1500K oxygen be with your reactor? with the additional mass requirements of massively heavy NTR engines, shielding and cooling oxygen doesnt make sense.
- philwelch 6y agoWhich is why you don’t use oxygen, at least in the traditional way. That’s my point. Interestingly you can inject the oxygen into the exhaust to act as a high-thrust, low-Isp afterburner. That’s the LANTR concept.