The pressure-fed engine is a class of rocket engine designs. A separate gas supply, usually helium, pressurizes the propellant tanks to force fuel and...
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The electric-pump-fed engine is a bipropellant rocket engine in which the fuel pumps are electrically powered, and so all of the input propellant is directly...
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Staged combustion cycle (redirect from Closed cycle rocket engine)
BE-4 engines Long March 9 Long March 10 Stoke Space Nova Air–fuel ratio Expander cycle Gas-generator cycle Combustion tap-off cycle Pressure-fed engine Sutton...
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Gas-generator cycle (redirect from Open-cycle rocket engine)
2022 on Zhuque-2. Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Staged combustion cycle Turbopump "RD-107". Encyclopedia Astronautica...
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Liquid-propellant rocket (redirect from Pump-fed engine)
rocket engine nozzle. For feeding propellants to the combustion chamber, liquid-propellant engines are either pressure-fed or pump-fed, with pump-fed engines...
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the Curie engine. Rocket Lab has also developed a version of the Curie engine with more thrust called HyperCurie. While Curie is pressure-fed, HyperCurie...
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engine nozzle. In terms of feeding propellants to the combustion chamber, cryogenic rocket engines are almost exclusively pump-fed. Pump-fed engines work...
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turbopumps, most hypergolic engines are pressure-fed. A gas, usually helium, is fed to the propellant tanks under pressure through a series of check and...
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Aestus (category Rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle)
mixing of the MMH propellants with nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer. The pressure-fed engine allows for multiple re-ignitions. Fuel and oxidizer are stored in...
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Expander cycle (category Rocket engines)
performance Compared to a pressure-fed engine, pump-fed engines and hence, expander cycle engines have higher combustion chamber pressures. Increased combustion...
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