NERVA2
RE: Watters and Enigma
In light of the latest shutdown thread - Nerva - "what the hell"
Firstly neither of you have ever posted any replies on that thread. Secondly, i doubt it that you Enigma, are an aerospace engineer. I have been looking at your posts and am amazed at what...
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"Not exactly - hydrogen is the fuel in a chemical rocket, used in conjunction with oxygen (oxidizer) to provide energy. The propellant is the reaction product water with some excess of hydrogen"
"In a Nuclear Thermal Rocket, hydrogen is simply the propellant and uranium (primarily...
He3 is an isotope heavilly bombarded on the lunar surface from solar waves (rays) which are tritated (not referring to water). This component can be used for propellant production however, lithium (which is almost abundent beaneath earth) is a more greater option.
- thus Li 6 - D is...
So basically you are re-establishing what i stated in my previous post...
That Hydrogen is the primary fuel - the accelerant which is the propellant...
However, the terms for hydrogen and liquid oxygen for use, hypothetically, inside the space shuttle, are scripted as LH2\LOX for their...
In NTR's (Nuclear Thermal Rockets) harnessing nuclear reactors
the uranium is the fissionable fuel,
the hydrogen is the propellant that is heated to supersonic velocities,
in a classic example, the SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) uses both fuels, one categorized as the accelerent - the...
The uranium is known as the fissionable fuel, which microfissions inside the reactor realeasing heat and other pressure properties that force the hydrogen fuel to exert out of the thruster nozzle.
The hyrogen is the classified accelerent which is indeed the propellant and classified fuel...
Der...What do you think the hydrogen escaping from the Nuclear thermal rocket and minute percentage relatavistic velocities is. Hydrogen is used as the fuel in this concept due to the overheating of it causing critical tempratures which induce it to travel at above supersonic velocity (even some...
I don't get it. What's the point of using Nuclear Fusion (or to that matter fission) Reactors for Nuclear Propulsion. Surley there has to be a better way. Increasing temprature of fuel's such as Hydrogen is good, and leads to faster velocity energy to transfer and channel into thrust, but...
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Again my poor friend's, the scientists working on nuclear rocket propulsion are decieving us all. The idea of Fissionable reactions boast ISP'S at a minimum (when engineering plans are acuratley created) of over 1million. These ISp's for 4500 - and 5000 are merley for gas core and...
[Note: hi everyone, this is my first post, my name is U235 or more conversly Dion. I am 16]
Why is it everytime i look over schematics for the next nuclear rocket engine the design's are completley blindsided to nuclear physics and the harnessing of direct fusion and fission reactions...