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“Make it bigger” does work, but it increasingly stops resembling a car. Check out the range this one can get on a single tank of hydrogen! https://en.m.wikiped
by 542458 5y ago
“Make it bigger” does work, but it increasingly stops resembling a car. Check out the range this one can get on a single tank of hydrogen!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas-Centaur https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas-Centaur
I don’t know what you’d consider the max range here to be, but it’s definitely better than 887km.
- beckingz 5y agoI think the space shuttle may win for most kilometers traveled on a single hydrogen tank.
- 542458 5y agoI would have citied that, but they use solid boosters which makes the number messier... I could get a lot of range on a Tesla if I was allowed to use solid fuel boosters!
- 0x64 5y agoShuttle had solid-fuel boosters and hypergolic thrusters for on-orbit maneuvering. The Delta IV Heavy, on the other hand, is a fully hydrogen-powered rocket: three common cores, with an RL10-powered upper stage. It also launched the Parker Solar Probe, which has been doing rounds around the sun for a while now.
- dweekly 5y agoExcellent range. And to the point of the comment, said linked vehicle is a production vehicle where the tank was not added for the sole purpose of breaking a record, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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