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February 24, 2010 5:15 am by Luke Maurits
![Brmj and I chatted a little about lander fuel tank size and dimension issues on IRC tonight. Pasting the relevant parts of the discussion here because they include some hard numbers that it would be nice to have handy for future reference.
<brmj> Yeah, that would be great.<brmj> Do... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
February 24, 2010 5:15 am by Luke Maurits
![Brmj and I chatted a little about lander fuel tank size and dimension issues on IRC tonight. Pasting the relevant parts of the discussion here because they include some hard numbers that it would be nice to have handy for future reference.
<brmj> Yeah, that would be great.<brmj> Do... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
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January 5, 2010 7:11 pm by Luke Maurits
![In mission plan bravo (in which the lunar lander's engine is used for propulsion the whole trip, somewhat like Apollo 13's emergency configuration) there is a large fuel tank in the stack, behind the mission extension module, which holds all the fuel for TLI, lunar capture and TEI. I... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
January 20, 2010 7:09 pm by Luke Maurits
![This approach is growing on me. If we had two "adaptors" (each a set of two rings with criss-crossing support beams between them, or something similar), each of which goes on one end of the tank (with one adaptor connecting to the CM-OSM and another to the engine block of the PM), with high tension... gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
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November 21, 2009 10:51 pm by first fatman in space!
![i was wondering if like josh suggested on a different thread if vashmir was a suitable engine here? gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
December 14, 2009 9:25 am by Rocket-To-The-Moon
![VaSIMR is really only appropriate for station keeping and for interplanetary probes. gopost](/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/gopost.png) |
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