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Chapter 8: How It Survives
Reactors, heat, water, oxygen and methane, and where the chain ends: in fire.
What it shows. The whole chain: reactors, heat, water and oxygen, methane, ending in fire.
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The engineering behind it
Methalox from Titan
The ascent vehicle lifts off at 109 tonnes on 14 tonnes of methane from the sea and 50 tonnes of oxygen from the ice.
Water, oxygen and electrolysis
Kraken Shore mines Titan's ice and splits it into the oxygen people breathe and the hydrogen the fusion transports throw out of their nozzles.