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On Dec 17 2009, 5:43 pm, David Spain wrote:
William Mook writes: I see the following development arcs; MEMSbased rockets,MEMsbased inertial guidance,MEMSbased life support, etc. Conventional liquidfuelrockets built withMEMscomponents around existing aeroshell and tankage technology. Creation of fully reusable cryogenic and non-cryogenic liquidfuel rockets with aforementioned components. 1) commercial moon tourism flights 2) development of global wireless hotspot If you positMEMSrockets operating across entire surfaces, like millions of inkjet printers, what do you suppose is the best chemicalfuel? Hypergolics? How reactive are those with the Si materials used inMEMSconstruction? Just curious, Dave I didn't see this last year, but somehow saw it this year. Please note that MEMS devices can be made out of a far broader range of material than Silicon http://www.microfabrica.com/ Small aerospike engines made of refractory metals have been made that operate with conventional fuels and oxidizers. Hydrogen peroxide oxidizer with methane fuel for testing. Testing is ongoing with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen combination at reasonably high pressures. With these we will make propulsive skins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXwctPXT4c |
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