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Liquid Oxygen Tank Examples. Credit: NASA
This equipment will be used for storing liquid hydrogen delivered by the mining spacecraft until it can be converted into fuel. Construction of this hardware will be contracted out to Lockheed Martin. Storage criteria demand cyrogenic temperatures (~ -253 deg C) and pressurization at ~ 227 kPa.
- 1kg liquid hydrogen = 0.014254 m^3
- Values utilized from NASA Space Shuttle liquid hydrogen tank