The expander cycle is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In this cycle, the fuel is used to cool the engine's combustion chamber, picking up...

separate piston compressor and piston expander, with compressed air heated by internal fire as it entered the expander cylinder. The first versions of the...

pump-fed. Pump-fed engines work in a gas-generator cycle, a staged-combustion cycle, or an expander cycle. Gas-generator engines tend to be used on booster...

example, the RD-180 and RS-25 use boost pumps driven by tap-off and expander cycles, as well as pressurized tanks, to incrementally increase propellant...

2022 on Zhuque-2. Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Staged combustion cycle Turbopump "RD-107". Encyclopedia Astronautica...

Alpha uses a tap-off cycle. It first flew in September 2021 then made it to orbit on its second attempt in October 2022. Expander cycle Pressure-fed engine...

combustion chamber, the tap-off cycle is considered an open-cycle engine. Examples include the J-2S and BE-3. Expander cycle Cryogenic fuel (hydrogen, or...

cryogenic rocket engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in an expander bleed cycle. Two or three will be used to power the core stage of the H3 launch...

The Blue Engine 7 is a liquid hydrogen/oxygen dual expander cycle engine for use with the Blue Moon family of lunar landers. The company utilizes additive...

theory, an expander graph is a sparse graph that has strong connectivity properties, quantified using vertex, edge or spectral expansion. Expander constructions...

Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Gas-generator cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Solid-propellant rocket Staged combustion cycle George Paul Sutton...

Russian rocket engine to burn liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in the expander cycle, in which turbopumps are driven by waste heat absorbed in the nozzle...

positive displacement compressor+expander below 100 kW. With high temperature hydraulic fluid, both the compressor and the expander can be liquid-ring pumps even...

engine burns cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in an open expander cycle, driving the turbopumps with waste heat from the main combustion process...

rocket engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in a closed expander cycle. It is China's third generation of upper stage cryogenic propellant...

first European expander cycle engine, removing the need for a gas generator to drive the fuel and oxidizer pumps. The expander cycle was found to be...

Copenhagen Suborbitals' Spica Gas-generator cycle Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Staged combustion cycle Electric-pump-fed engine "LM Descent Propulsion...

liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants. The engine runs on an expander cycle, running the turbopumps with waste heat absorbed from the main combustion...

order to power the engine turbopumps. Blue Origin has developed an open expander cycle variant of the BE-3, the BE-3U. Two of these engines are used to power...

created. The later part of this phase saw the inception of a cryogenic expander cycle demonstrator project. Multiple technology development and demonstrator...

the Space Launch System and the Centaur V of the Vulcan rocket. The expander cycle that the engine uses drives the turbopump with waste heat absorbed by...

exhaust that can be supplied to a turbine expander operating at a pressure ratio between 6 and 12. The expander discharge leaves as a subcritical CO2 mixture...

to as a turbo-expander or an expansion turbine, is a centrifugal or axial-flow turbine, through which a high-pressure gas is expanded to produce work...

stream is dumped overboard. Turboexpander Gas-generator cycle Staged combustion cycle Expander cycle Components of jet engines Rakete zu den Planetenräumen;...

screw, scroll, or other expander), and then through a condenser heat exchanger where it is finally re-condensed. In the ideal cycle described by the engine's...

launchers options «Proton» and «Angara». For the first time in Russia the expander cycle engine has been developed with insurance of multiple in-flight starts...

of the gas core reactor rocket: open cycle designs, which do not contain the fuel within a vessel, and closed cycle designs, which contain the gas reaction...

to work both in open-cycle mode as a nuclear thermal engine during mission phases requiring high thrust, as well as in closed-cycle mode as a nuclear-electric...

nozzle of the RD-0126E was designed to increase the efficiency of an expander cycle by maximising heat transfer to the fuel that drove the engine's turbopumps...

rocket engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in a closed expander cycle. It is China's fourth generation of upper stage cryogenic propellant...