• A reaction engine is an engine or motor that produces thrust by expelling reaction mass (reaction propulsion), in accordance with Newton's third law of...
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  • Reaction Engines Limited is a British aerospace manufacturer based in Oxfordshire, England. In 1989 (35 years ago) (1989), Reaction Engines was founded...
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    crankshaft. Unlike internal combustion engines, a reaction engine (such as a jet engine) produces thrust by expelling reaction mass, in accordance with Newton's...
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    A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this...
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    Rocket Engine) is a concept under development by Reaction Engines Limited for a hypersonic precooled hybrid air-breathing rocket engine. The engine is being...
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  • The Reaction Engines Scimitar is a derivative of the SABRE engine technology, but intended for jet airliners (the Reaction Engines LAPCAT A2 concept),...
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    the opposite direction to the jet. Reaction engines operating on the principle of jet propulsion include the jet engine used for aircraft propulsion, the...
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    functions of primary propulsion, reaction control, station keeping, precision pointing, and orbital maneuvering. The main engines used in space provide the primary...
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  • The Reaction Engines Limited LAPCAT Configuration A2 (called the LAPCAT A2) is a design study for a hypersonic speed jet airliner intended to provide long...
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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket...
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    Reaction engines generate the thrust to propel an aircraft by ejecting the exhaust gases at high velocity from the engine, the resultant reaction of...
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  • In vehicles, the engine that expels the propellant is called a reaction engine. Although technically a propellant is the reaction mass used to create...
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  • reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (Reaction), using SABRE, a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket propulsion...
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  • often expressed as: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Many infeasible reactionless drives are a staple of science fiction for...
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    fusion reaction cannot be produced, it might be possible to use fusion to boost the efficiency of another propulsion system, such as a VASIMR engine.[citation...
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  • non-inertial reference frames. Ground reaction force Reactive centrifugal force Isaac Newton Ibn Bajjah Reaction engine/jet engine Shear force Taylor, John R. (2005)...
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    Some designs for SSTO attempt to use airbreathing jet engines that collect oxidizer and reaction mass from the atmosphere to reduce the take-off weight...
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    insertion in place of traditional chemical rocket engines. These types of rocket-like reaction engines use electric energy to obtain thrust from propellant...
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    Ramjet (redirect from Ramjet engine)
    chamber. The Reaction Engines Scimitar was proposed for the LAPCAT hypersonic airliner, and the Reaction Engines SABRE for the Reaction Engines Skylon spaceplane...
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    The Reaction Motors LR99 engine was the first large, throttleable, restartable liquid-propellant rocket engine. Development began in the 1950s by the Reaction...
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    Reaction Engines Limited (REL) to develop and produce Skylon, a proposed spacecraft based on HOTOL technologies, including its air-breathing engine....
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  • first liquid-propellant rocket engine developed in the United States for use in aircraft. It was designed and built by Reaction Motors Inc., and used ethyl...
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  • Working mass (redirect from Reaction mass)
    Working mass, also referred to as reaction mass, is a mass against which a system operates in order to produce acceleration. In the case of a chemical...
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  • designed and built by Peter Masak Reaction Engines Scimitar, an aircraft engine Scimitar (game engine), a video game engine Split scimitar winglets, a type...
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  • Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL, Reaction Engines Skylon and the Reaction Engines A2 hypersonic...
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    propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines, which...
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    orbital maneuvering system (OMS) engines and Reaction control system (RCS) thrusters. SpaceX's Draco and SuperDraco engines for the Dragon spacecraft. For...
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  • efficiency is explained by the Oberth effect, wherein the use of a reaction engine at higher speeds generates a greater change in mechanical energy than...
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    researchers in 1940. They developed engines powered by aniline and red fuming nitric acid (RFNA). Robert Goddard, Reaction Motors, and Curtiss-Wright worked...
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    link] Kolm, H.; et al. (1980). "Electromagnetic Guns, Launchers, and Reaction Engines". MIT. Compare: Henson, Keith; Henson, Carolyn (June 1977). "1977 Space...
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