Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <1988Oct20.180651.25023@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp> <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1988Oct14.170639.1828@utzoo.uucp> <7246@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 88 18:06:51 GMT

In article <7246@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>[funny design of Proton first stage]
>If the engines are liquid hydrogen, then from our own ET I'd expect
>the side tanks to be LOX and the larger central tank to be LH...

The first stage is N2O4/UDMH, I think.  I know it's not hydrogen; Energia
has the first big Soviet hydrogen engines.
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