Would unpainted iron or steel rust in space?
"Rusting", or more chemically correct "oxidation", is a reaction with oxygen in the atmosphere. Iron reacts with oxygen and turns into iron oxide, the reddish-brown substance commonly …
What happens in to the fuel in fuel-rich Lox-Kerosene?
It is predicted from indirect photolysis modeling of C9 and C16 paraffinic, naphthenic, olefinic, and aromatic hydrocarbon compounds that volatile components in kerosenes/jet fuels will undergo …
Using ozone as oxidizer - Space Exploration Stack Exchange
2016年12月20日 · One of the major issues was that when mixed with O2 to increase stability and reduce toxicity at 75% O2 and 25% O3, it tended to separate from O2 which has a lower …
What is the best chemical rocket fuel from a purely specific …
2022年8月9日 · Ozone-Hydrogen; Fluorine-Diborane; But fluorine is very difficult to handle. Doing a combustion experiment back in the mid 1960s, I had a regulator burn up that was apparently …
fuel - Which chemical propellant combination has the highest ...
That is disregarding practical factors like making a bomb rather than a rocket in the case of using acetylene+ozone. I know that the highest isp achieved was 542 with lithium, hydrogen, and …
launch - Why are hydrogen-fluorine fuels not used for rockets …
2017年3月9日 · LF2/LH2, or liquid difluoride liquid dihydrogen bipropellant (binary cryogenic fuel) has a specific impulse of 410 seconds (by weight) at sea level, which is more than e.g. …
Solar flux on (not at) Earth - Space Exploration Stack Exchange
2015年2月19日 · Ozone thickness: ozone layer thickness in cm. Divide Dobson Units by 1000 to get the equivalent in cm. Check the TOMS (Total Ozone Mapper Spectrometer) pages for …
Why is the breathing atmosphere of the ISS a standard …
$\begingroup$ While human body depends on absolute oxygen content, meaning pressure drop requires increase of oxygen content, ability of substances to burn depends on relative …
How much UV radiation will Mars inhabitants receive?
2021年6月4日 · The total solar constant at the Earth is 1366 watts/square meter with about 8% in the UV. Much of the UV portion of the radiation is absorbed by ozone in Earth's upper …
artificial satellite - How exactly does atomic oxygen cause …
2019年10月23日 · It literally eats away at surfaces made of certain materials.It's pretty crazy. According to Space Mission Analysis and Design ("SMAD", 3e, by Wertz and Larson), Atomic …