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    The HG-3 was a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine which was designed for use on the upper stages of Saturn rockets in the post-Apollo era. Designed in...
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    RS-25 (redirect from SSME (rocket engine))
    The RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is used...
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    The BE-3 (Blue Engine 3) is a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Blue Origin. The engine began development in the early 2010s and...
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    J-2, commonly known as Rocketdyne J-2, was a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles. Built in the...
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    for the Space Shuttle Main Engine contest, but this was won by the RS-25, an enlarged Rocketdyne HG-3. Since these engines are fired from the point of...
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    of the largest and most powerful liquid-hydrogen-fueled liquid-fuel rocket engines to be designed and component-tested. It was originally developed during...
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    Hochgeschwindigkeit I (HG I). Me 262 V9, prototype with Jumo 004A engines used for testing radio equipment. Me 262 V10, prototype with Jumo 004A engines with two bomb...
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    New Shepard (redirect from RSS H.G. Wells)
    two further flights were performed by Goddard. Blue Engine 1, or BE-1, was the first rocket engine developed by Blue Origin and was used in the company's...
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    969 in) MK 114 cannon. Me 262 E-2 Proposed rocket-armed variant carrying up to 48 × R4M rockets. Me 262 HG-I "High Speed" variant, modified A-1a with...
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    J-2X (category Rocket engines using hydrogen propellant)
    cancellation of the program. HG-3 engine M-1 (rocket engine) Wikimedia Commons has media related to J-2X (rocket engine). "J-2X Engine". Aerojet Rocketdyne....
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    Blue Origin (redirect from Blue Engine 2)
    and launch service provider. The company makes rocket engines for United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket and is currently operating its suborbital reusable...
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    Additional J-2 engines in the S-II stage, ~131 s increased upper stage propellant capacities. Improved or advanced upper stage engines, such as the HG-3, plus...
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    Saturn II (redirect from Saturn II (rocket))
    considered. It replaced the first stage's five J-2 engines with seven higher thrust HG-3-SL engines, giving 1,334,000 pounds-force (5,930 kN) of sea level...
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    age by H.G. Wells and by his personal interest in science, began a serious analysis of rockets, concluding that conventional solid-fuel rockets needed...
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    engineer who, in 1923, had purchased H.G. Cordes, a Bremerhaven firm famous for its manufacture of black-powder rockets used mainly for harpoons, signal devices...
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    Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum (/haɪˈdrɑːrdʒərəm/...
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    improved armour and engine cooling. After the VK-105PF2 engine received a boost from a manifold pressure of 1050 mmHg to 1100 mmHg, additional tests were...
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  • the optional engine variants such as the X2, all 186S engines and the LC 186 XU1. The standard engine colour also changed in the HK to Rocket Red from the...
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    De Havilland Hornet (category Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft)
    using 25 lb (2,053 mm Hg, 51" Hg) boost and flaps at one-third extension was remarkable! The 2,070 hp (1,540 kW) Merlin 130/131 engines fitted to the prototypes...
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    Opel RAK.1 (category Rocket-powered aircraft)
    The Opel RAK.1 (also known as the Opel RAK.3) was the world's first purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft. It was designed and built by Julius Hatry under...
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    Dinitrogen tetroxide (category Rocket oxidizers)
    polymath, reported in 1927 that he had experimented in the 1890s with a rocket engine that used spring-loaded nozzles that periodically introduced vaporized...
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  • high tailplane Hawker P.1065 swept wing with rocket boost Hawker P.1067 idea for swept wing with Avon engine Hunter prototype Hawker P.1069 Hawker P.1070...
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    Hydrazine (category Rocket fuels)
    addition, mono-propellant hydrazine-fueled rocket engines are often used in terminal descent of spacecraft. Such engines were used on the Viking program landers...
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    engine, generally designed for high-performance driving. In 1949, General Motors introduced its 88 with the company's 303-cubic-inch (5 L) OHV Rocket...
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    as well as LNG is used as a rocket fuel, when combined with liquid oxygen, as in the TQ-12, BE-4, Raptor, and YF-215 engines. Due to the similarities between...
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    North American P-51 Mustang (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
    or resetting the engine's manifold pressure regulator to allow overboosting, raising output as high as 1,780 horsepower at 70 in Hg. In December 1942...
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    Nitrous oxide (category Rocket oxidizers)
    through inactivation of vitamin B12. It is also used as an oxidiser in rocket propellants and motor racing fuels, and as a frothing gas for whipped cream...
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    mercury (61" Hg) "boost". The "boost" is the pressure to which the air–fuel mixture is compressed before being fed through to the engine's cylinders (manifold...
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    Lockheed P-38 Lightning (category Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft)
    liquid-cooled turbo-supercharged piston engine, 1,600 hp (1,200 kW) each WEP at 60 inHg (2.032 bar) and 3,000 rpm Propellers: 3-bladed Curtiss electric constant-speed...
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    Rockwell International (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
    was re-merged into Rockwell, and by that time produced most of the rocket engines used in the United States. Rockwell also purchased the Aero Design and...
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