Author Topic: Crossfeed was used before Falcon Heavy - in Ariane 4 and Atlas rockets  (Read 13626 times)

Offline Redclaws

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No.  Cross-feed refers to engines being able to draw fuel from multiple sources.  Shuttle's engines drew their fuel from a single tank.
Space shuttle OMS/RCS most certainly a cross-feed system..

This was in reply to a comment about the SSMEs.

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