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Polish rocket first to reach space on new more eco-friendly fuel
- jdmark 2y agoJohn Carmack eat your heart out!
- pfdietz 2y agoThe British Black Arrow used hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizer and reached orbit in 1970 (demonstration) and 1971 (only payload carrying launch.)
- lo_zamoyski 2y agoMore about Black Arrow [0], which used a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water (85% concentration), which apparently is quite common. So the improvement introduced by the ILR-22 AMBER is the use of a 98% concentration. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR-33_AMBER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR-33_AMBER