Timothy Bendel wrote:
Or because he couldn't care less to react?"I wonder why you wrote your email instead of letting Michael do thatBecause you were so off base.
himself, your business silo companion."
" An abandoned ICBM silo enterprise eh, like the Breeds on this list."
Are you insulting Paul Breed?
People who can put something in orbit are not amateurs. Your remark is" My question regarded only (about to correct me if I was wrong) that noNo amateur has put something in orbit either. Should we dismiss orbital
amateur ever was capable to launch a kerosene-peroxide bipropellant rocket."
missions because amateurs have not done it?
XL Space Systems went away because Michael decided to work directly for Beal.The press said it did not. His "plant" at MacGregor was torn down, next rebuilt
As for "bad press", do I have to remind you of all the negative arm chair
commentaries about SpaceX when they started? The point I was making was that
Michael Carden made a huge amount of hydrogen peroxide for Beal and it did
work.
Integration is often possible. I know plants who produce HP just because some" Maybe a good idea to use a sparger to produce amateur hydrogen peroxide.Keep in mind that big companies like FMC have integrated plants that make
Not so for industry: they all use vacuum distillation, at least up to 85 %."
many more chemicals then just hydrogen peroxide.
To be blunt, why should a customer care about the method of production if theThat is an IF question.
product meets specs?
That is indeed what was said then. Large chemical companies are afraid of bad" Now it seems FMC does sell peroxide to amateurs: well not to Armadillo andIf they wouldn't sell to Armadillo, why would they sell to any other amateur
that is why they abandoned peroxide as a propellant. A pity after so much
experience gathered."
group? FMC gave Armadillo the run around saying that they would sell to them
*if* they only made a few safety changes at their shop. Carmack made the
changes and then FMC wanted more changes. After a while Carmack realized they
were just messing with him and would not sell to them.
You can deal with FMC if you want. Call up XL Space and you will actually getLast Michael wrote me he was not ready to send HP to Europe. ± 3-4 years ago.
hydrogen peroxide.