[AR] Re: Faster Space Transport? (was Re: Zubrin,

  • From: Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:50:07 -0700

Hydros electrolyzes it, then burns it for higher thrust:

http://www.tethers.com/HYDROS.html

Is that not chemical propulsion? Is water not being used as a propellant? It's simply being stored in a more storable form.

On 2019-08-26 14:08, William Claybaugh wrote:

Rand:

I’m familiar with water being a product of chemical rocket
combustion, not the source of it.

Bill

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:04 AM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Does water count?

On 2019-08-26 07:57, William Claybaugh wrote:
Uwe:

I’d be happy to buy you dinner at your favorite restaurant
(anywhere
on-planet) if there is a *chemical rocket* fuel depot in orbit
within
the next ten years.

Bill

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:31 AM Uwe Klein
<uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Am 26.08.2019 um 01:01 schrieb William Claybaugh:
Anthony:

Yeah, this dead horse does seem pretty well beaten....

dead horses don't flinch.

Uwe

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