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    The staged combustion cycle (sometimes known as topping cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In...
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    The combustion tap-off cycle is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. The cycle takes a small portion of hot exhaust gas from the rocket engine's...
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    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...
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    air staged supply and fuel staged supply. Applications of staged combustion include boilers and rocket engines. Air staging, or two-stage combustion, is...
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    into the combustion chamber. The major advantage of the cycle is reduced engineering complexity compared to the staged combustion (closed) cycle. RD-107...
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    the combustion chamber, cryogenic rocket engines are almost exclusively pump-fed. Pump-fed engines work in a gas-generator cycle, a staged-combustion cycle...
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    full-flow staged combustion (FFSC) cycle. FFSC is a twin-shaft staged combustion cycle that uses both oxidizer-rich and fuel-rich preburners. The cycle allows...
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  • Archimedes (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab for its Neutron...
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    RL10 for Atlas V and Delta IV second stages (closed cycle), H-II's LE-5 (bleed cycle). Staged combustion cycle A fuel- or oxidizer-rich mixture is burned...
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  • YF-215 (category Rocket engines using full flow staged combustion cycle)
    engine burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen in a full-flow staged combustion cycle. The engine is currently under development and is designed to power...
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  • end of USSR. The RD-701 is a tripropellant engine that uses a staged combustion cycle with afterburning of oxidizer-rich hot turbine gas. The RD-701...
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    RD-170 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    four combustion chambers, all supplied by one single-shaft, single-turbine turbopump rated at 170 MW (230,000 hp) in a staged combustion cycle. Several...
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    cycles: closed and open. In a closed cycle, the working gas stays inside the engine. Heat is introduced with a heat exchanger or external combustion and...
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    The Diesel cycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression...
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  • YF-90 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    and liquid oxygen in a staged combustion cycle. It is China's first hydrogen-oxygen engine to use the staged combustion cycle and is expected to be used...
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    upper stage[citation needed] Copenhagen Suborbitals' Spica Gas-generator cycle Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Staged combustion cycle "LM Descent...
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    RD-191 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    is fueled by a kerosene / LOX mixture and uses an oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle. In the future the engine is expected to become a workhorse in...
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    RD-180 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    RP-1/LOX mixture and uses an extremely efficient, high-pressure staged combustion cycle. The engine runs with an oxidizer-to-fuel ratio of 2.72 and employs...
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  • RD-270 (category Rocket engines using full flow staged combustion cycle)
    considered, being about 26 MPa. This was achieved by applying full-flow staged combustion cycle for all the incoming mass of fuel, which is turned into a gas and...
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  • BF-20 (category Rocket engines using full flow staged combustion cycle)
    (Chinese: 蓝焱-20; pinyin: Lányàn-20, lit. Blue Flame 20) is a full-flow staged combustion cycle rocket engine burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen under development...
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    controllability. Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Gas-generator cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Solid-propellant rocket Staged combustion cycle George...
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  • Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator (category Rocket engines using full flow staged combustion cycle)
    sometimes also termed a powerpack) that would utilize a full flow staged combustion cycle (FFSC). The prime contractors were Rocketdyne and Aerojet. The...
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    LE-7 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    The LE-7 and its succeeding upgrade model the LE-7A are staged combustion cycle LH2/LOX liquid rocket engines produced in Japan for the H-II series of...
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    equipped with Raptor engines, the first mass-produced full-flow staged combustion cycle engines, which burn liquid methane (natural gas) and liquid oxygen...
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    methane-based engines for their future rockets. These engines would use staged cycle combustion, for higher efficiency similar to the system used on the former...
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  • BE-7 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    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...
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    SABRE (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    within the engine. The compressed air is subsequently fed into the rocket combustion chamber where it is ignited along with stored liquid hydrogen. The high...
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    fluid is then dumped (open cycle), or cooled, compressed and reused (closed cycle). In these types of engines, the combustion is primarily used as a heat...
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    NK-33 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    series engines are high-pressure, regeneratively cooled oxygen-rich staged combustion cycle bipropellant rocket engines. The turbopumps require subcooled liquid...
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    BE-4 (category Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle)
    The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) is an oxygen-rich liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with...
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