Weekly Space Report: Cryo Propellant Challenges

Deep Dive today, on cryogenic liquids’ temperature control. Oxygen’s boiling point is very close to methane’s melting point. With SpaceX’s practice of subchilling the oxygen, frozen methane is a real hazard.

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Apologies for the somewhat late post. My eyeballs were stuck on the penultimate Tour de France stage today. (:

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