Resistojets use heated propellant to generate thrust but are limited by chamber materials that can only withstand temperatures up to 3000K, restricting exhaust velocities to under 10,000 m/sec even with hydrogen propellant, around half the velocity possible with more advanced designs.
Resistojets use heated propellant to generate thrust but are limited by chamber materials that can only withstand temperatures up to 3000K, restricting exhaust velocities to under 10,000 m/sec even with hydrogen propellant, around half the velocity possible with more advanced designs.
Resistojets use heated propellant to generate thrust but are limited by chamber materials that can only withstand temperatures up to 3000K, restricting exhaust velocities to under 10,000 m/sec even with hydrogen propellant, around half the velocity possible with more advanced designs.
In the resistojet subclass of devices, chamber temperatureis necessarily
limited by the materials of the walls and/or heater coils to some 3000_K or less, and hence the exhaust velocities, even with equilibrated hydrogen, cannot exceed 10,000 m/sec, which is nonetheless a factor of two
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