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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Messerschmitt Me 262 variants (section Me 262 HG)
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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Aerojet M-1 (redirect from M-1 (rocket engine))
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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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)
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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Rocketdyne J-2 (redirect from J-2 (rocket engine))
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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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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Saturn MLV (section Engine uprating)
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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Holden straight-six motor (redirect from Holden Starfire engine)
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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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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Opel-RAK (redirect from Opel Rak 2 “Rocket Car”)
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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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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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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Mercury (element) (redirect from Hg (element))
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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Hawker Aircraft (redirect from H.G. Hawker Engineering)
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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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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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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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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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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FGM-148 Javelin (redirect from JAVELIN Rocket Launcher)
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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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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power prevented the crew from sending a radio distress signal, and no rockets or flares were launched to alert the escorts. A severe list prevented launch...
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