Post #2190602
2022-12-30 20:09 UTC
(When JWST deployed, and it was announced that they should have enough fuel to remain in service for over a decade, they were talking about the supply of hydrazine! Also dinitrogen tetroxide, which is used with hydrazine in the SCAT thrusters.)
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@mcnees@mastodon.social 2022-12-30 20:17
In the early 1980s, Brill left RCA to serve as director of the space shuttle solid rocket motor program at NASA. After three years she returned to RCA, then eventually took a position with the International Maritime Satellite Organization. Yvonne Brill was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010, and was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama in 2011 (the photo in the first post).
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2022-12-30 20:25
@mcnees@mastodon.social Are all the MRE engines resistively heated? In the patent drawing, there is a mix of resistively heated and catalytic thrusters (apparently based on exothermic dissociation). Does this dissociation also happen in the resistively heated thrusters?