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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Aluminum as rocket fuel?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.134016.13037@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <C005BL.5D3.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:40:16 GMT
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- Another source of information is the External Tank Study published
- by the Space Studies Institute. Cutting up ETs for their aluminum
- was listed as an option. Impulse of such an engine would be in the
- 330 second range. Very viable as a Lunar based fuel source.
-
- Allen
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