The highest specific impulse chemical rockets use liquid propellants (liquid-propellant rockets). They can consist of a single chemical (a monopropellant)...

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.)...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant combination used in a rocket engine, whose components spontaneously ignite...

Rocket propellant is used as reaction mass ejected from a rocket engine to produce thrust. The energy required can either come from the propellants themselves...

hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or liquid....

solid-propellant rockets or motors) are chemical rockets which use propellant in a solid state. Liquid-propellant rockets use one or more propellants in a liquid state...

monopropellant rocket (or "monochemical rocket") is a rocket that uses a single chemical as its propellant.[contradictory] Monopropellant rockets are commonly...

storage, most propellants are stored as either a solid or a liquid. A rocket propellant is a mass that is expelled from a vehicle, such as a rocket, in such...

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel...

tripropellant rocket is a rocket that uses three propellants, as opposed to the more common bipropellant rocket or monopropellant rocket designs, which...

surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within...

(Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) and similar fuels like RG-1 and T-1 are highly refined kerosene formulations used as rocket fuel. Liquid-fueled...

Since one or more of the propellants is in the liquid phase, all cryogenic rocket engines are by definition liquid-propellant rocket engines. Various cryogenic...

mounted on an adapted 88 mm gun mounting. The rocket was driven by a liquid fueled engine. The liquid propellant used was a hypergolic mixture consisting of...

liquid rocket propellants including RP-1 (kerosene), hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide (NTO), and mildly cryogenic, space-storable propellants like liquid methane...

Rutherford is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab and manufactured in Long Beach, California. The engine is used...

Curie is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed and manufactured by Rocket Lab. A bipropellant is used for the propulsion of the third stage/kick...

weighed approximately 500,000 kilograms. Compared to liquid propellant rockets, the solid-propellant motors (SRMs) have been capable of providing large...

Archimedes is a liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace...

1970, Clark developed liquid propellants at the Naval Air Rocket Test Station at Dover, New Jersey (known as the Liquid Rocket Propulsion Laboratory of...

become the seventh country in the world to have a medium-sized liquid-propellant rocket engine over 75 tons. Nuri (KSLV-II) is a three-stage launch vehicle...

bases. Liquid oxygen is the most common cryogenic liquid oxidizer propellant for spacecraft rocket applications, usually in combination with liquid hydrogen...

rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket....

in refrigeration cycles and steam turbine cycles. Some rocket engines use subcooled propellants. In refrigeration systems, subcooling the refrigerant is...

multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem...

propulsion do. The rocket would only have to carry the means of capturing solar energy, such as concentrators and mirrors. The heated propellant would be fed...

History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines. AIAA. p. 799. ISBN 9781563476495. Sutton, George Paul (2006). History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines....

of ULA's new Vulcan rocket. Centaur was the first rocket stage to use liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellants, a high-energy combination...

temperatures in order to maintain them in a liquid state. These fuels are used in machinery that operates in space (e.g. rockets and satellites) where ordinary fuel...

perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) is a solid rocket propellant. It differs from many traditional solid rocket propellants such as black powder or...