[AR] Re: [UK OFFICIAL] Moon Express - HTP/kero

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:01:33 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Vincent Tarantini wrote:

Just a request for clarification, I have read that > 65 % HP contracts when it freezes.

Henry Spencer wrote:
while peroxide has an obvious problem in that (like water) it expands as it freezes

Tsk.  MEMORY ERROR DETECTED, REBOOTING... :-)

Yep, Vince is right -- low concentrations expand, but high ones -- the main ones of interest for propulsion -- contract. Which, as I noted, doesn't necessarily keep you out of trouble...

Henry

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