On 30 Oct 2002 16:09:55 -0800, "Sean R. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'd like to have a higher performance propellant available for Spike, >and I'm sure it wouldn't hurt POGO either. If and when we're >manufacturing peroxide, it'll be at higher concentrations than we can >use, so we'll have to dilute it. Not that diluting it is hard, but it >seems like kind of a waste to me, since now we have to carry all that >water in our rockets. You were concerned about batteries adding too much >mass to a rocket. How about water? I've already said I was bowing out of this discussion, so I assume you're trolling. :-) I have a simple philosophy: Do What Works. Given our current projects - KISS, Spike, and POGO - silver works. Silver may not be the perfect catalyst, but it meets the Pournelle criterion: it is Good Enough. I don't believe that finding a catalyst that outperforms silver is something we need to look at in the near future. If we really want better performance, we can get it by doing a couple things we need to do anyway: build better mass fraction vehicles, and fly on biprop. If flying high mass fraction vehicles on biprop doesn't get us the performance we need, it may then be time to look at other catalysts. I suspect that about then we'll be switching oxidizers anyway. I won't ask if you agree with what I'm saying. Do you understand what I'm saying? -R -- "...And the last thing I remember is asking, 'What could go wrong?'" _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
