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Old May 9th 05, 10:55 PM
Rand Simberg
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On Mon, 09 May 2005 13:36:51 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:


If these are using cryogenic propellants, you've got to get them all
into LEO in fairly short order to prevent excessive propellant boil-off.


Or subcool the propellants and insulate the tanks properly...