re: Liquid nitrogen tetroxide freezes at -11 deg. C.

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Success_Machine — 10/15/2003 1:29:44 PM (archived)

It is liquid at room temperature. So the fuel tank itself doesn't need insulation. I don't know what you saw, maybe the engines were being cryogenically cooled before being fired-up for liftoff.

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Go China Go! - Mark Eby - 10/15/2003 2:54:46 AM
- Yeah, but what do the chi comms eat? - carl - 10/15/2003 3:00:02 PM
  - menu... - Nick Hoffman - 10/15/2003 3:29:49 PM
    - 20 meals. One per hour of flight. There's a joke in there somewhere... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/15/2003 4:53:26 PM
    - Yummmy....... - carl - 10/15/2003 3:37:38 PM
- re: That is not a LH2/LOX rocket ! - Success_Machine - 10/15/2003 1:02:07 PM
  - They never said it was - Larry J - 10/15/2003 1:41:44 PM
    - re: Might be pieces of the launch escape tower separating - Success_Machine - 10/16/2003 3:24:08 AM
      - No, it was way too early for that - Larry J - 10/16/2003 2:19:17 PM
  - re: Liquid nitrogen - SteveS - 10/15/2003 1:18:02 PM
    - re: Liquid nitrogen tetroxide freezes at -11 deg. C. - Success_Machine - 10/15/2003 1:29:44 PM
- re: Alone in space - Raoul - 10/15/2003 12:55:12 PM
- Physics and engineering are universal languages. - ebnelson - 10/15/2003 12:54:27 PM
- Too bad they're so secretive... - Pex - 10/15/2003 6:38:26 AM
  - Two or three orbital REVS and...... - carl - 10/15/2003 5:31:57 PM
- Surely not... - Adam - 10/15/2003 3:54:52 AM

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