- Look up
hypergolic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
hypergolic propellant is a
rocket propellant combination used in a
rocket engine,
whose components...
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divided into two categories;
hypergolic propellants,
which ignite when the fuel and
oxidizer make contact, and non-
hypergolic propellants which require an...
- late 1950s by
Aerojet General Corporation as a storable, high-energy,
hypergolic fuel for the
Titan II ICBM
rocket engines.
Aerozine continues in wide...
- peroxide) as an oxidizer,
which together with C-Stoff as the fuel,
forms a
hypergolic mixture. The
proportions of the
components in C-Stoff were
developed to...
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proved to be
capable of 50,000 lbf (220 kN) of
thrust at sea level. A
hypergolic derivative of the RS-88 has been
selected for the
Boeing CST-100 Starliner...
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thrusters used
hypergolic mono-methyl
hydrazine fuel
oxidized with
nitrogen tetroxide. The
Gemini spacecraft was also
equipped with a
hypergolic Orbit Attitude...
- the low
solubility of O3F2 in
liquid oxygen, it has been
shown to be
hypergolic with most
rocket propellant fuels. The
mechanism involves the boiling...
- of red
fuming nitric acid and a
hydrazine derivative — specifically,
hypergolic UDMH-nitric acid. Both
propellants are
extremely dangerous individually:...
- AK-2x
family in the
Soviet Union) as the oxidiser; the
combination is
hypergolic and has a
maximum practical specific impulse of
approximately 2.12–2.43 km/s...
- the oxidizer,
while the RCS
control thruster engines have used
storable hypergolic propellants. In
November 2012, at a
meeting of the
Royal Aeronautical...
