Hydrogen has a great heat capacity

Post by **Error** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:04 am

Liquid hydrogen is just that.

Combined with liquid oxygen and sparked, it goes boom.

Thus, rockets.

Fun fact: the Space Shuttle itself produced only steam as engine exhaust. Hooray LH/LOX fuel. The solid rocket boosters were.... less environmentally-friendly, but still.

Fun fact 2: the Shuttle could lift its own weight to orbit no problem. It just lacked the fuel without the external tank.

Fun fact 3: The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are the 2nd most powerful reaction drives on a manned spacecraft. Only the Apollo missions (Saturn V's F-1 engines) had moar powah.

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:15 am

But Who's Counting? wrote:Liquid hydrogen is just that.

Combined with liquid oxygen and sparked, it goes boom.

Thus, rockets.

Fun fact: the Space Shuttle itself produced only steam as engine exhaust. Hooray LH/LOX fuel. The solid rocket boosters were.... less environmentally-friendly, but still.

Fun fact 2: the Shuttle could lift its own weight to orbit no problem. It just lacked the fuel without the external tank.

Fun fact 3: The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are the 2nd most powerful reaction drives on a manned spacecraft. Only the Apollo missions (Saturn V's F-1 engines) had moar powah.

Pretty soon they might be number one. On the SLS in development if the engines pass testing they'll be cranked up much higher then what they were on the space shuttle.

Also SLS gonna be fucking awesome. USA USA USA

cats · Post by **cats** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:01 pm

Liquid oxygen tends to make things explode.

Post by **Error** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:23 pm

Only if mishandled.

So... don't mishandle it?

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:32 pm

Baby, you gotta know how to touch that oxygen.

Saravanth · Post by **Saravanth** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:38 am

I'm pretty sure it would crush your components if they're not shielded.

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:59 pm

Saravanth wrote:I'm pretty sure it would crush your components if they're not shielded.

I only have three components and they'll be plenty far away from excessive pressure due to their sensitive nature.

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