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Fuel Tank Components

Composite Vessel

  • Purpose: Phobos Sample Return Mission - International Program: Return Spacecraft Propulsion System
  • Flight qualification of the product: Letter "O", flight use
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Working mediumNitrogen, Air, Helium
Operating Pressure, not over17.6 MPa
Liner Mass1.95 kg
Vessel Mass5.8 kg
Inner Tank Volume18 dm³
Unused Working Medium Residue after Expulsions, not over0.65 dm³
Allowable Helium Leak during Leakage Test, l·μm of He/s, not over1 · 10ˉ³
Allowable Leak Rate throughout Service Life, l·μm of He/s, not over2.33 · 10ˉ²
Inner Volume CleannessRussia State Standard GOST 17216, Class 5
Guaranteed Service Life15 years

Storage and feed of pressurant to propellant tanks and operating fluid to cold gas thrusters