On 2/8/2018 3:39 PM, John Schilling wrote:
On 2/8/2018 1:15 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
And like LOX, on a flight stage, methane shouldn't require insulation unless you've got some special constraint (like, say, fragile orbiter tiles hanging downwind of the tank).
But you lose some of that benefit with the extra precautions you have to take against inadvertent mixing of fuel and oxidizer. Which is always bad, but extraordinarily bad when they are miscible in a common liquid temperature range.
Common bulkheads, for example, may not be possible without introducing a mass detonation hazard that makes catastrophic failure of large solid motors look benign.