[AR] Re: clustering big rockets
- From: "John Dom" <johndom@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:24:04 +0100
Chris Jones wrote on 271215:
The Energiya boosters (4 of them) were essentially Zenit first stages with
LOX/kerosene propellants. Its main stage used LOX/LH2.
Thank you for correcting me:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htm . So
no brown smoke.
Not too surprising since Energiya was a Korolev design I read and he
preferred LOX/kero to toxic UDMH/NTO propellants. Inadmissibly slow for
ICBMs (response time).
LOX/LH2 for the core but LOX/kero for the 2nd stage. Is that not unusual?
Even RCS was the cryo LOX/kero.
jd
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