Cryogenic propellant management in space: open challenges and perspectives

This paper presents open challenges and perspectives of propellant management for crewed deep space exploration. The most promising propellants are liquid hydrogen and liquid methane, together with liquid oxygen as an oxidizer. These fluids remain liquid only at cryogenic conditions, that is, at tem...

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Published in:NPJ microgravity 2024-03, Vol.10 (1), p.34-13, Article 34
Main Authors: Simonini, Alessia, Dreyer, Michael, Urbano, Annafederica, Sanfedino, Francesco, Himeno, Takehiro, Behruzi, Philipp, Avila, Marc, Pinho, Jorge, Peveroni, Laura, Gouriet, Jean-Baptiste
Format: Article
Language:English
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Applied Microbiology
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Classical and Continuum Physics
Exploration
Hydrogen
Immunology
Life Sciences
Moon
Perspective
R&D
Research & development
Space exploration
Space Exploration and Astronautics
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics
Spacecraft
Velocity
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