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    Vulcain is a family of European first stage rocket engines for Ariane 5 and Ariane 6. Its development began in 1988 and the first flight was completed...
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    Prometheus engine could find a use on a future version of the expendable Ariane 6 launcher. In this scenario, a "streamlined version of Vulcain rocket engine called...
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  • wristwatches Vulcain (rocket engine), a family of European first-stage engines for the Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 Vulcain (ship), a number of ships named Vulcain Vulcain...
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    A cryogenic rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses a cryogenic fuel and oxidizer; that is, both its fuel and oxidizer are gases which have been liquefied...
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  • This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications. Comparison of orbital launch systems Comparison of orbital launchers...
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    same technology as the HM7B and Vulcain engines, except significantly lengthened. To enable re-ignition, the Vinci engine is paired with an auxiliary propulsion...
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    The F-1 is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne. The engine uses a gas-generator cycle developed in the United States in the late 1950s and was used...
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  • Rafale's M88 engine, the Concorde's Olympus 593, the CFM56 and CFM-LEAP for single-aisle airliners, as well as the Ariane 5's Vulcain engine. The company...
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    Stangeland. "Turbopumps for Liquid Rocket Engines". Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. "Vulcain-2 Cryogenic Engine Passes First Test with New Nozzle...
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    stage. This simplifies the stack, along with the use of a single core engine (Vulcain). Because the core cannot lift its own weight, two solid-fuel boosters...
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    The Viking rocket engines were members of a series of bipropellant engines for the first and second stages of the Ariane 1 through Ariane 4 commercial...
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    International Wade Aero (WANKEL) 2 Types AeroTwin AT972T Aerojet produced rocket engines for missiles. It merged with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. Aerojet LR1...
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  • oxygen. Methane is somewhat less efficient than the hydrogen used by the Vulcain engine of Ariane 6 but it can be stored at higher temperatures, −160 °C (113 K;...
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    Ariane 6 (category Ariane (rocket family))
    This two-stage rocket utilizes liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (hydrolox) engines. The first stage features an upgraded Vulcain engine from Ariane 5...
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    Astazou Intercontinental ballistic missile stages Satellite rocket engines Viking Vulcain Blériot XI Sud Aviation Emouchet Sud Aviation Vautour The companies...
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    production plant Solar-Wasserstoff-Bayern becomes operational. 1996 – Vulcain rocket engine. 1997 – Anastasios Melis discovers that the deprivation of sulfur...
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  • demonstration projects and would use the larger reusable Prometheus rocket engine. The Themis prototype was to be built by Paris prototyping company MyCTO...
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    Ariane 5 (category Ariane (rocket family))
    compartments, one for liquid oxygen and one for liquid hydrogen, and a Vulcain 2 engine at the base with a vacuum thrust of 1,390 kN (310,000 lbf). The H173...
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    YF-77 (category Rocket engines using hydrogen propellant)
    to the European Vulcain on the Ariane 5 or the Japanese LE-7 on the H-II. In January 2002, the development of a new cryogenic engines was approved by...
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  • Avio (category Rocket engine manufacturers of Italy)
    production of the liquid-oxygen turbopump for the Vulcain 2 engine and the P230 solid-propellant engine, the booster used as the first stage in a dual configuration...
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    Nozzle extension (category Rocket propulsion)
    liquid rocket engine with changeable nozzle ratio, Magazine "Engine" (in Russian) Casing for fire, Magazine "Engine" Vulcain-2 Cryogenic Engine Passes...
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  • and tests of combustion chambers, in particular those of the Vulcain 1 and Vinci engines for the European launcher Ariane 5. The vacuum test stand P4...
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  • List of Ariane launches (2020–2029) (category Ariane (rocket family) launches)
    of the Vulcain 2 engine 110th consecutive rated operation of the EAP solid rocket boosters 150th consecutive rated operation of the HM7B engine "Arianespace...
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    Liquid fly-back booster (category Ariane (rocket family))
    propulsion systems, the first of which – main rocket propulsion – would be based on three gimbaled Vulcain engines fueled by 168,500 kg (371,500 lb) of propellant...
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  • List of Ariane launches (2010–2019) (category Ariane (rocket family) launches)
    21 June 2019. Plus+9 minutes, 15 seconds. The main cryogenic stage's Vulcain engine has cut off and the spent stage has separated. It will fall back into...
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  • (disambiguation) Vulcain (disambiguation) Vulcana (1875–1946), Welsh female bodybuilder Vulcanair, an Italian-based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft...
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  • Ariane flight V88 (category Ariane (rocket family) launches)
    particular causing full nozzle deflections of the solid boosters and the Vulcain main engine. This led to an angle of attack of more than 20 degrees, causing...
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  • "The SABRE Engine". Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2010-08-10. "Neutron". Rocket Lab. Retrieved 2022-09-05. "Rocket Engines and Propulsion"...
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    two jet engines, and an oxygen-methane engine with a thrust of 30 tons. The rocket engine uses the technology of the Vulcain (the main engine of Ariane...
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  • produces commercial versions of its proprietary rocket engines such as HM7B, Aestus, Vinci, and Vulcain. Airbus Defence and Space launched One Atlas in...
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