The no-vent method is a promising approach to handling the problems of low-g venting during propellant transfer. A receiver tank is first cooled to remove thermal energy from the tank wall and the resultant vapor vented overboard. The nozzles mix the incoming liquid and residual vapor in the tank maintaining a thermodynamic state which allows the tank to fill with liquid without venting. Ground based testing at NASA Lewis Research Center (LeRC) has demonstrated the no-vent fill process and attempted to bound its low-gravity performance. But, low-gravity testing is required to validate the method. As an alternative to using a dedicated spacecraft for validation, several small scale experiments to study no-vent fill in low-g were formulated. Cost goals quickly limited the search to two possibilities: a secondary payload on the space shuttle, or a small scale sounding rocket experiment. The key issues of small scale experimentation are discussed, and a conceptual design of a sounding rocket experiment with liquid hydrogen for studying the fill process is presented.


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    Titel :

    Small experiments for the maturation of orbital cryogenic transfer technologies


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    1992 World Space Congress ; 1992 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.09.1992


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch







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