Hydrogen ISP is still king by a significant margin, but ISP isn’t the whole story – hydrogen comes with additional tank weight (due to lower density) and storage issues (pesky molecular size…). So that trade-off for ISP only really makes sense for an upper stage like Centaur. I’m not sure it makes sense for New Shepherd even…
Hydrogen ISP is still king by a significant margin, but ISP isn’t the whole story – hydrogen comes with additional tank weight (due to lower density) and storage issues (pesky molecular size…). So that trade-off for ISP only really makes sense for an upper stage like Centaur. I’m not sure it makes sense for New Shepherd even…