To: Red Badger
“Helium is used in the spacecraft’s thruster systems to allow the thrusters to fire without being combustible or toxic.”
And there you have it. The greeniacs forced them to stop using proven hydrazine thrusters.
59 posted on
06/13/2024 6:42:34 AM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Well, we wouldn’t want to cause Spatial Warming, now would we?..............
60 posted on
06/13/2024 6:43:47 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Uh, no. The helium is used to pressurize the fuel and oxidizer tanks because it's inert to both fuel and oxidizer.
Starliner burns monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
66 posted on
06/13/2024 6:48:51 AM PDT by
Campion
(Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Re: "Hydrazine thrusters"
Is helium more "leaky" because its most common isotope, two protons and two neutrons, is so small?
68 posted on
06/13/2024 7:05:37 AM PDT by
zeestephen
(Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I would love to know how helium keeps them from being toxic. And I would like to know ‘toxic to what? They are only fired in a vacuum.
74 posted on
06/13/2024 1:36:06 PM PDT by
Bryan24
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