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Using Tapered Channels to Improve LAD Performance for Cryogenic Fluids: Suborbital Testing Results Cover

Using Tapered Channels to Improve LAD Performance for Cryogenic Fluids: Suborbital Testing Results

Gravitational and Space Research
Volume 9 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)
By: Kevin Supak,  Steve Green and  Amy McCleney  
Open Access
|Jun 2021

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Figure 1

Liquid acquisition device illustration for storable propellants.
Liquid acquisition device illustration for storable propellants.

Figure 2

Tapered liquid acquisition device concept for cryogenic propellants.
Tapered liquid acquisition device concept for cryogenic propellants.

Figure 3

Photograph of bubble migration in a tapered liquid acquisition device.
Photograph of bubble migration in a tapered liquid acquisition device.

Figure 4

Ground test data for a 5° tapered liquid acquisition device.
Ground test data for a 5° tapered liquid acquisition device.

Figure 5

Photograph of the tapered liquid acquisition devices for the first flight experiment.
Photograph of the tapered liquid acquisition devices for the first flight experiment.

Figure 6

Microgravity test data as compared with ground test data.
Microgravity test data as compared with ground test data.

Figure 7

Photograph of the tapered liquid acquisition devices for the second flight experiment.
Photograph of the tapered liquid acquisition devices for the second flight experiment.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gsr-2021-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2332-7774
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Language: English
Page range: 115 - 120
Published on: Jun 26, 2021
Published by: American Society for Gravitational and Space Research
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Cryogenic propellant,
Cryogenic storage,
Propellant transfer,
Propellant management device,
Liquid acquisition device
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other,
Materials sciences,
Materials sciences, other,
Physics,
Physics, other

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