Re:America has more new spaceships on the way
by rbanffy on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:25AM
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You can use cryogenics for the landers and depots that don't stay parked in lunar orbit for long, but any assets with long shelf life should use hypergolics.
And now my mission profile has two different landing modules, one using cryogenics, one using hypergolics. Oh well... We can always go hypergolic if the mass budget is not a big issue.
You can opt for hypergolic propellants that won't boil off, but you sacrifice performance and make ground handling more expensive and dangerous due to these being highly toxic.