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by Sanzig
898 days ago
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American ballistic missiles are all solid fuel, which avoids the need to babysit liquid fuel. For liquid, you either need to keep cryogenic propellant and/or oxidizer constantly topped up, or use a hypergolic fuel (which are almost universally quite nasty). Solid just sits in the silo until you push the doomsday button. Falcon is a liquid fueled rocket with a cryogenic oxidizer (liquid oxygen), so it'd make for a poor ICBM. |
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And liquid-fueled rockets are all SpaceX knows.