Timeline for Can rockets fly without burning any fuel with the help of gases under extreme pressure only?
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| May 23, 2021 at 4:05 | vote | accept | Ankit | ||
| Sep 3, 2020 at 14:14 | comment | added | paul23 | What would you consider "burning" though? - Do you consider hydrazine splitting into multiple particles "burning"? - It isn't a reaction with oxygen so people wouldn't consider it burning. But it is an endothermic reaction so it creates (a lot of) heat. There are quite a few mono propellant rockets, based on hydrazine or hydrogen peroxide. | |
| Sep 1, 2020 at 5:38 | comment | added | Sartem Cacartem | Also, even if you have infinitely strong tanks, it will be much better to burn the fuel, since there is a limit to the exhaust speed of gas at any given temperature, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…, a cold gas thruster will have a much lower specific impulse | |
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| Aug 31, 2020 at 7:35 | history | answered | BowlOfRed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |