liquid-propellant engine
1liquid propellant — a rocket propellant in liquid form. Cf. solid propellant. * * * liquid propellant, a liquid fuel used in a rocket engine. It contains its own oxygen or combines with oxygen usually released from a separate tank …
2liquid propellant — Any liquid combustible fed to the combustion chamber of a rocket engine …
3Liquid rocket — A liquid rocket is a rocket with an engine that uses propellants in liquid form. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably high density allows the volume and hence the mass of the tanks to be relatively low, resulting in a high mass ratio.… …
4Propellant — A propellant is a material that is used to move ( propel ) an object. This will often involve a chemical reaction. It may be a gas, liquid, plasma, or, before the chemical reaction, a solid.Common chemical propellants consist of a fuel, like… …
5Liquid rocket propellants — The highest specific impulse chemical rockets use liquid propellants. This type of propellent has a long history going back to the first rockets and is still in use in for example the Space Shuttle and Ariane 5. History Early developmentOn March… …
6Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre — The Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), located at Valiyamala, near Nedumangad in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India, is the research centre and rocket engine test facility under Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Engaged in… …
7Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …
8Rocket propellant — is mass that is stored, usually in some form of propellant tank, prior to being used as the propulsive mass that is ejected from a rocket engine in the form of a fluid jet to produce thrust.Chemical rocket propellants are most commonly used,… …
9Space Shuttle main engine — SSME redirect here. For the services field, see Service Science, Management and Engineering infobox rocket engine imsize=250 caption=Space Shuttle Main Engine test firing name=Space Shuttle Main Engine country of origin=United States manufacturer …
10Merlin (rocket engine) — Merlin 1C SpaceX Merlin 1A (shown) Country of origin United States Manufacturer SpaceX Liq …
