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Automatic fluid separator supplies own driving power

Centrifugal separator suspended in the fuel tank of a space vehicle selects and vents gas vapor at zero gravity. Escaping vapor is used to drive an expander turbine that is magnetically coupled to the separator.

Decker, M. S.↗

Special tool seals conductors with combination of plastic sleeves

Special tool seals electrical conductors connecting instrumentation within space vehicle cryogenic fuel tanks and oxidizer tanks. An inner sleeve of fluorinated ethylene-propylene and an outer sleeve of tetrafluoroethylene enclose a bundle of conductors and are heated with the tool to form a tight seal of the bundle and each individual wire.

Young, S.↗

Densitometer Patent

Measuring density of single and two-phase cryogenic fluids in rocket fuel tanks

Jacobs, R. B.↗

Zero gravity separator Patent

Describing apparatus for separating gas from cryogenic liquid under zero gravity and for venting gas from fuel tank

Pope, A. M.↗