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    A rocket engine nozzle is a propelling nozzle (usually of the de Laval type) used in a rocket engine to expand and accelerate combustion products to high...
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    full-length plug nozzle may also be called an aerospike. The purpose of any engine bell is to direct the exhaust of a rocket engine in one direction,...
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  • efficiency of the nozzle by causing much of the expansion to take place downstream of the nozzle itself. Consequently, rocket engines and jet engines for supersonic...
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    diverging nozzle design for use on his impulse turbine in the year 1888. Laval's convergent-divergent nozzle was first applied in a rocket engine by Robert...
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    A nozzle extension is an extension of the nozzle of a reaction/rocket engine. The application of nozzle extensions improves the efficiency of rocket engines...
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    A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids...
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    A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed jet...
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    宇宙輸送技術部門". without nozzle 48.52kN (4.9 tf) without nozzle 66.64kN (6.8 tf) without nozzle 286.8 without nozzle 291.6 USA's Cryogenic Rocket engine RL10B-2 Russian...
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    The bell-shaped or contour nozzle is probably the most commonly used shaped rocket engine nozzle. It has a high angle expansion section (20 to 50 degrees)...
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  • nozzle is a class of rocket engine nozzles that are designed to operate efficiently across a wide range of altitudes. The basic concept of any engine...
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    turboramjet Balancing machine Components of jet engines Intake momentum drag Rocket engine nozzle Rocket turbine engine Spacecraft propulsion Thrust reversal Turbojet...
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    divergent extension to the convergent engine nozzle which accelerates the exhaust to supersonic speeds. Rocket motors maximise thrust and exhaust velocity...
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    Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly...
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    parts of the engine, but reduce the rocket's efficiency. They have the benefit of allowing roll control with only a single engine, which nozzle gimbaling...
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    using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant...
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  • Air-augmented rockets use the supersonic exhaust of some kind of rocket engine to further compress air collected by ram effect during flight to use as...
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    Rocket Engine) was a concept under development by Reaction Engines Limited for a hypersonic precooled hybrid air-breathing rocket engine. The engine was...
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    gases against the combustion chamber and nozzle, not by "pushing" against the air behind or below it. Rocket engines perform best in outer space because of...
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    Poland. The rocket engine, according to the plan, worked for 3.2 s, accelerating the rocket to a speed of about 90 m/s, which allowed the rocket to reach...
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    Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is the third rocket engine in history designed with a full-flow staged combustion...
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  • {\displaystyle A_{e}} is the exit area of the nozzle.[citation needed] The specific impulse (Isp) of a rocket engine is the most important metric of efficiency;...
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  • The water is allowed to escape as steam through a rocket nozzle to produce thrust. Steam rockets are usually pressure fed, but more complex designs using...
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    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 rockets powered...
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    LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE". 1st Meeting of EcosimPro Users. 11: 6. Retrieved 2023-06-23. "Vulcain-2 Cryogenic Engine Passes First Test with New Nozzle Extension"...
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  • been flown. There are two different kinds of tripropellant rockets. One is a rocket engine which mixes three separate streams of propellants, burning...
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    The expanding nozzle is a type of rocket nozzle that, unlike traditional designs, maintains its efficiency at a wide range of altitudes. It is a member...
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    The F-1 engine is the most powerful single-nozzle liquid-fueled rocket engine ever flown. The M-1 rocket engine was designed to have more thrust, but it...
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    Ramjet (redirect from Rocket-ramjet)
    engine with added 'trumpets' as exhaust nozzles, expressing the idea that the exhaust from internal combustion engines could be directed into nozzles...
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  • A thermal rocket is a rocket engine that uses a propellant that is externally heated before being passed through a nozzle to produce thrust, as opposed...
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  • zero. Therefore, rocket engines do not have ram drag and the gross thrust of the rocket engine nozzle is the net thrust of the engine. Consequently, the...
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