bipropellant engine
1Bipropellant rocket — A bipropellant rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses two propellants (very often liquid propellants) which are kept separately prior to reacting to form a hot gas to be used for propulsion.In contrast, most solid rockets have single solid… …
2Rocket 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) …
3Cryogenic rocket engine — Vulcain engine of Ariane 5 rocket …
4Liquid air cycle engine — A liquid air cycle engine (LACE) is a spacecraft propulsion engine that attempts to gain efficiency by gathering part of its oxidizer from the atmosphere. In a LOX/LH2 bipropellant rocket the liquid oxygen needed for combustion is the majority of …
5RD-170 (rocket engine) — The RD 170 is the world s most powerful multi nozzle multi chamber liquid bipropellant rocket engine. It burns the Russian equivalent of RP 1 fuel and LOX oxidizer in four combustion chambers supplied by a single turbo pump according to a staged… …
6Viking (rocket engine) — The Viking rocket engines were members of a series of bipropellant engines for the first and second stages of the Ariane 1 thru Ariane 4 commercial launch vehicles, using storable, hypergolic propellants, N2O4/UH 25 (mixture 75% UDMH and 25%… …
7De Havilland Spectre — Spectre Spectre rocket engine …
8Ariane 2 and Ariane 3 — were expendable launch systems in the Ariane family designed by the Centre National d Etudes Spatiales.They were almost identical, but Ariane 3 was equipped with strap on boosters.They were the successors to Ariane 1 and predecessors of the… …
9Ariane 1 — Ariane I is the first version of the Ariane launcher family. Technical details With lift off mass of 210,000 kg, Ariane I was able to put in geostationary orbit one satellite or two smaller of a maximal weight of 1850 kg.Ariane I was a three… …
10Spacecraft propulsion — A remote camera captures a close up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial… …
