Abstract:
An assembly including a cryogenic fluid tank for a space vehicle and a thermal protection system for a cryogenic fluid tank of the space vehicle, the system including: a shell adapted to surround the cryogenic fluid tank, the shell being dimensioned to define an inside space between the shell and the tank; and an injector for injecting a cooling fluid spray into the inside space; the cooling fluid being injected into the inside space in the liquid state at a temperature that is adapted to ensure that the cooling fluid picks up the heat flux reaching the cryogenic fluid tank, thereby causing the cooling fluid to vaporize, the shell having a plurality of orifices adapted to allow the cooling fluid in gaseous form to leave inside space through the shell.
Abstract:
A propulsion assembly (1, 201) for a rocket, comprising a tank (2) configured to contain a propellant, an engine having a combustion chamber (9), a propellant feed pipe (11) extending between the tank (2) and the combustion chamber (9) and having an isolation valve (24) arranged therein, and a heater (15) having an inlet connected to the feed pipe (11) and an outlet connected to the tank (2). The inlet of the heater comprises an inlet pipe (13a) connected firstly to the feed pipe (11) downstream from the isolation valve (24) and secondly to a neutral fluid feed (31).
Abstract:
The device comprises two heat exchangers (74, 90) suitable respectively for vaporizing first and second propellants before they are reintroduced in gaseous form into their tanks (16, 18). The heat exchangers co-operate respectively with first and second gas generators (60, 84) suitable for being fed with a mixture of propellants in order to produce combustion, the second gas generator (84) being suitable for being fed at least in part by the exhaust from the first gas generator (60).