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The propellant tanks don’t leak, the combustion products aren’t corrosive.

Designing spacecraft is like “does this material ever outgas anything which might affect other parts? I guess we can’t use it” much less leaky propellant tanks.




> the combustion products aren’t corrosive

Nitpick: if the chemical combustion is perfectly efficient, there are no corrosive byproducts or remainder.


Nitnitpick: and we know it isn’t and the corrosive propellants will contaminate surfaces:

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a588174.pdf




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