The Space Storable Rocket Technology Program (SSRT) was conducted to establish a technology for a new class of high performance and long life bipropellant engines using space storable propellants. The results are described. Task 1 evaluated several characteristics for a number of fuels to determine the best space storable fuel for use with LO2. The results indicated that LO2-N2H4 is the best propellant combination and provides the maximum mission/system capability maximum payload into GEO of satellites. Task 2 developed two models, performance and thermal. The performance model indicated the performance goal of specific impulse greater than or = 340 seconds (sigma = 204) could be achieved. The thermal model was developed and anchored to hot fire test data. Task 3 consisted of design, fabrication, and testing of a 200 lbf thrust test engine operating at a chamber pressure of 200 psia using LO2-N2H4. A total of 76 hot fire tests were conducted demonstrating performance greater than 340 (sigma = 204) which is a 25 second specific impulse improvement over the existing highest performance flight apogee type engines.
Space Storable Rocket Technology (SSRT) Basic Program
1992
100 pages
Report
No indication
English
Rocket Engines & Motors , Rocket Propellants , Liquid propellant rocket engines , Liquid rocket propellants , Propellant storage , Storable propellants , Space storage , Specific impulse , Aerospace engineering , Aerospace environments , Apogees , Fabrication , Life (Durability) , Performance prediction , Thrust
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