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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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    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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    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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    969 in) MK 114 cannon. Me 262 E-2 Proposed rocket-armed variant carrying up to 48 × R4M rockets. Me 262 HG-I "Hohe Geschwindigkeit" or "High Speed" variant...
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    Blue Origin (redirect from Blue Engine 2)
    New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    with the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and U-37, attacked the British convoy HG 53. The convoy lost 967-ton Norwegian freighter Tejo and British freighters...
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    Pentaborane(9) (category Rocket fuels)
    Soviet Union, Valentin Glushko used it for the experimental RD-270M rocket engine, under development between 1962 and 1970. Other boranes were evaluated...
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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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    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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    11 October 2022. Smith, Heather (3 July 2012). "Javelin warhead redesigned for future threats". The Redstone Rocket. Decatur, Alabama, US. Archived from...
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    Leopard 2 (redirect from Bergepanzer 3)
    and sighting equipment. The tank is powered by a V12 twin-turbo diesel engine made by MTU Friedrichshafen. In the 1990s, the Leopard 2 was used by the...
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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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  • material. The Saunders-Roe SR.53 Rocket/jet plane in 1957 used the newly invented silver peroxide catalyst rocket engine. The concept of the communications...
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