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- From: 0004244402@mcimail.com (Karl Dishaw)
- Subject: Aluminum as Rocket Fuel?
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:10:48 GMT
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- I dug into my notes from Aero/Astro project lab, we tried to make a
- fuel feeder for an aluminum/oxygen rocket:
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- Isp = 118 sec (after accounting for loss due to solid particles)
- Must run oxidizer-rich since Al2O3 is a solid.
- Main hazard--oxygen getting into Al storage tank.
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- I'd love to see some info on the Wickman project. The Isp is too low to
- be really useful, but it would be great for circularizing orbits on mass
- driver-launched payloads, or maybe cheap transport on the lunar
- surface.
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- Karl
- sold my soul to Uncle Sam . . . now marked down for resale.
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