Prometheus rocket engine is an ongoing European Space Agency (ESA) development effort begun in 2017 to create a reusable methane-fueled rocket engine...
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Ariane Next (redirect from ENLIGHTEN (rocket engine program))
operations. The next-generation Prometheus rocket engine will use liquid methane at –162 °C as a fuel instead of hydrogen. The engine is expected to play a key...
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[non-primary source needed] Themis will be powered by the ESA's Prometheus rocket engine. Eventually, lessons learned with Themis' development will pave...
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of thrust. Two flight engines had been delivered to ULA by mid 2023. ESA is developing a 980 kN methalox Prometheus rocket engine which was test fired...
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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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Attitude Vernier Upper Module (AVUM) Prometheus (rocket engine) Liquid rocket Vega (rocket) RD-0146 Aeon 1 TQ-11 "MR10 Engine". Avio. Retrieved 24 March 2021...
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moon of Saturn Prometheus (volcano), a volcano on Io 1809 Prometheus, an asteroid Prometheus (rocket engine), a reusable rocket engine under development...
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ArianeGroup (section Rocket engines)
earlier demonstration projects and would use the larger reusable Prometheus rocket engine. The Themis prototype was to be built by Paris prototyping company...
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ArianeGroup. The rocket will consist of a first stage with three Prometheus engines, a re-ignitable second stage with a single Prometheus engine, and an optional...
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Prometheus Project (1969) Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster – Form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion NERVA – US Nuclear thermal rocket engine...
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electric-pump-fed rocket engines, and a mass simulator meant to occupy the place of a second stage. Rocket 2 was a prototype similar to Rocket 1. Rocket 3 was a launch...
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the Vinci rocket engine used on Ariane 6 since 2024, the future uncrewed reusable space plane Space Rider, the Prometheus reusable rocket engine, and the...
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DRACO was expected to be the first in-orbit test of a nuclear thermal rocket engine using low-enriched uranium, and its reusability and performance were...
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thruster Project Prometheus Safe Affordable Fission Engine Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power TOPAZ nuclear reactor Ad Astra Rocket Company. "VASIMR"...
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Rover Nuclear Rocket Engine Program: Final Report - NASA 1991 Project Prometheus: Beyond the Moon and Mars RD-0410 USSR's nuclear rocket engine This article...
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rocket. Earlier Common Centaurs were propelled by the RL10-A-4-2 version of the RL-10. Since 2014, Common Centaur has flown with the RL10-C-1 engine,...
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CALLISTO (redirect from CALLISTO (rocket demonstrator))
reusable VTVL demonstrator propelled by a small 40 kN Japanese LOX-LH2 rocket engine. It is being developed jointly by the French (CNES), German (DLR) and...
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A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor...
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Nuclear propulsion (redirect from Nuclear rocket)
with nuclear thermal and nuclear electric engines which could be more efficient than conventional rocket engines. The idea of using nuclear material for...
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programme to develop a prototype reusable rocket first stage using the Prometheus rocket engine. A similar project called CALLISTO is being independently developed...
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NERVA (redirect from Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application)
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA; /ˈnɜːrvə/) was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades...
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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Ariane 6 (category Ariane (rocket family))
the second uses the Vinci engine, designed specifically for this rocket. The Ariane 62 variant uses two P120C solid rocket boosters, while Ariane 64 uses...
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SpaceX (section Rocket engines)
vertical integration in the production of its rockets and rocket engines. SpaceX builds its rocket engines, rocket stages, spacecraft, principal avionics and...
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Project Valkyrie (section Engines)
featured in the movie Avatar. Project Prometheus Project Longshot "Valkyrie Antimatter Starship". Atomic Rockets: Slower Than Light. 19 December 2009....
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SpaceShipTwo (category Rocket-powered aircraft)
before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glided back to Earth and performed a conventional runway landing...
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Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (redirect from Prometheus I)
billion for NASA". Space News. Wikimedia Commons has media related to JIMO. Project Prometheus final report (2005) Project Prometheus webpage at NASA...
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History of SpaceX (section Merlin and Kestrel engine)
was in charge of developing rocket engines, propellant tanks and plumbing; Thompson was in charge of making the rocket's body and couplings. Hans Koenigsmann...
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List of Electron launches (redirect from List of Electron rocket launches)
operated by Rocket Lab. The rocket has been launched to orbit 66 times with 62 successes and four failures. A suborbital version of the rocket, HASTE, has...
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autonomous pilotless craft powered by a "Fastrac" liquid-propellant rocket engine, capable of reaching Mach 8 and performing 25 test flights per year...
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