Sentences with phrase «liquid rocket engine»

In some engines, especially for turbine engine blade cooling and liquid rocket engine cooling, fuel is used as a coolant, as it is simultaneously preheated before injecting it into a combustion chamber.

Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has posted the first - ever images of the fully - completed BE-4 liquid rocket engine on Twitter, giving the world a look at the technology that his company plans to use to send its New Glenn...

Atyam has worked at Space - X, GLXP Team Moon Express, Purdue's Zucrow Laboratory, NASA JPL (x2), LaRC (x2), and MSFC starting from the age of 17 and has led multiple successful NASA funded projects including the production and testing of the first and second fully 3D printed liquid rocket engine from a university.

Deepak Atyam has co-founded and is running a NewSpace startup, Tri-D Dynamics, which focuses on mass producing liquid rocket engines for the burgeoning launch vehicle markets.

«SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS The NTR represents the next major evolutionary step in high performance liquid rocket engines yet it is not new but was developed to a high technology readiness level during the Rover / NERVA programs.

Not exact matches

Surprisingly, the engine was not being purposefully ignited when it exploded: According to the company source, the blast occurred during a «lox drop,» in which liquid oxygen is pumped into a rocket engine to see if it leaks.

The US has no really big liquid - fuel rocket engine in production today, and historically has been averse to large engine clusters.

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

Once it filled its tank with liquid oxygen, it could light up the rocket engines and zoom to a height beyond the atmosphere of up to 120 miles.

Both variants of the SLS reuse space shuttle main engines — and both could feature shuttle - style solid rocket boosters, although one also has the option of liquid - fuel boosters.

A hybrid rocket propulsion system comprises propellants of two different states of matter, the most common configuration being a rocket engine composed of a solid propellant lining a combustion chamber into which a liquid or gaseous propellant is injected so as to undergo a strong exothermic reaction to produce hot gas that is emitted through a De Laval nozzle for propulsive purposes.

At the fringes of space, the dual - mode power plant would switch to a conventional rocket engine, drawing on the liquid hydrogen and a small supply of liquid oxygen to propel the winged craft into orbit at a final speed of Mach 25.

It uses a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propulsion system, which includes the RS - 25D / E rocket engines from the Space Shuttle Program for the core stage and the J - 2X engine for the upper stage.

The SLS core stage will store liquid hydrogen (LH) and liquid oxygen (LOX) to feed the rocket's four RS - 25 engines.

Hybrid rocket engines use a combination of solid and liquid or gaseous propellants.