Timeline for How does tankage mass really scale?
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 22:01 | comment | added | Anton Hengst | RO/RP-1 dev team, is that you? | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 20:48 | history | edited | SE - stop firing the good guys | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 8, 2020 at 19:22 | comment | added | Lawnmower Man | I would predict a square/cube relationship if tanks were spherical. Once your tank stops being spherical, you can only increase the propellant mass by making the tank longer. Thus, each marginal increase to propellant is effectively a disc of propellant surrounded by a ring of tank, which is a constant ratio no matter how long the tank grows. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1314219011530522624 | ||
| Oct 8, 2020 at 14:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 8, 2020 at 14:30 | vote | accept | SE - stop firing the good guys | ||
| Oct 8, 2020 at 13:01 | answer | added | Organic Marble | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 9:15 | comment | added | SE - stop firing the good guys | @Ludo Implied by "propellant type". Gaseous oxygen is something else than liquid oxygen. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 9:11 | comment | added | Ludo | Doesn't propellant volume play a role also? The development of cryogenics was essential to the success of the Saturn program, as using gaseous propellants would have made the tankage impossibly big | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 6:34 | history | asked | SE - stop firing the good guys | CC BY-SA 4.0 |