And Aerojet/Union Carbide built a LH2 plant SE of Sacramento,CA to support
the M-1 engine development in the 1960s.
I remember seeing it as a youngster of single digits when we lived in South
Sac.
Ken
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:22 PM Michael Kelly <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Apollo program generated the huge demand for liquid hydrogen that
resulted in a gigantic production facility in Ontario, CA. It supplied
both Rocketdyne’s Santa Susanna test facility and the Cape, all via over
the road trucks. Liquid methane is easier to truck, and much easier to
ship via…well, ship. A port to receive methane ships at SpaceX’s facility
would be easy. But Elon has evidently been developing methane sources in
Texas himself.
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On Oct 11, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
the environmental assessment for SpaceX's Boca Chica launch site raised an
The next item down in Space News's "First Up" newsletter reports that
interesting question. They're going to need methane in large quantities,
both for the rockets and for a natural-gas powerplant that's part of the
site plans. How are they going to get it there? Apparently there's no
operational gas pipeline in the area, and the current paperwork is silent
on the matter.
Henry