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No, it sounds like they're using liquid helium to cool it. But your idea sounds like it's worth trying.
by tocomment 15y ago
No, it sounds like they're using liquid helium to cool it. But your idea sounds like it's worth trying.
- dasmoth 15y agoThe helium is just a recirculating coolant. In the test rig, it's being cooled by boil-off of LN2. In a flight configuration, using cryogenic propellants as a heat dump seems logical.
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