- The
staged combustion cycle (sometimes
known as
topping cycle,
preburner cycle, or
closed cycle) is a
power cycle of a
bipropellant rocket engine. In...
-
employs an oxygen-rich
preburner,
unlike typical fuel-rich US designs. The
thermodynamics of the
cycle allow an oxygen-rich
preburner to give a
greater power-to-weight...
- only hydrogen,
allowing for
greater specific impulse. The RD-701 has two
preburners per
combustion chamber, both of
which run
oxygen rich. One is used to...
-
turbopump powered by pre-combustion of the
engine propellants in the
preburner. The
kerosene fuel is used for
regenerative cooling of the engine. Vehicle...
- engines. Part of the
unburned propellant is
burned in a gas
generator (or
preburner) and the
resulting hot gas is used to
power the
propellant pumps before...
-
testing injectors in 2014 and
tested an
oxygen preburner in 2015. 76 hot-fire
tests of the
preburner,
totaling some 400
seconds of test time, were executed...
- full-duration burns, and one that
supports short-duration, high-pressure
preburner tests. The
companies first human spaceflight launched from
Launch Site...
- air/hydrogen
injectors for the
SABRE preburners. In 2020,
Airborne Engineering conducted a test
campaign on an "HX3 module" (
preburner to
helium loop heat exchanger)...
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Shuttle uses a
system of
fluted posts,
which use
heated hydrogen from the
preburner to
vaporize the
liquid oxygen flowing through the
center of the posts...
- 100
development tests of
several elements of the BE-4,
including the
preburner and a "regeneratively
cooled thrust chamber using multiple full-scale...
