The pressure-fed engine is a class of rocket engine designs. A separate gas supply, usually helium, pressurizes the propellant tanks to force fuel and...

The electric-pump-fed engine is a bipropellant rocket engine in which the fuel pumps are electrically powered, and so all of the input propellant is directly...

2022 on Zhuque-2. Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Staged combustion cycle Turbopump "RD-107". Encyclopedia Astronautica...

rocket engine nozzle. For feeding propellants to the combustion chamber, liquid-propellant engines are either pressure-fed or pump-fed, with pump-fed engines...

engine nozzle. In terms of feeding propellants to the combustion chamber, cryogenic rocket engines are almost exclusively pump-fed. Pump-fed engines work...

The SpaceX Kestrel was an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. The Kestrel engine was developed in the 2000s by SpaceX for upper stage use on the Falcon...

switch to feed off the remaining propellant, effectively becoming a Pressure-fed engine. The remaining fuel would then be spent for the last trajectory corrections...

Combustion tap-off cycle Pressure-fed engine Electric-pump-fed engine Sutton, George (2006). History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines. AIAA. doi:10.2514/4...

performance Compared to a pressure-fed engine, pump-fed engines and hence, expander cycle engines have higher combustion chamber pressures. Increased combustion...

mixing of the MMH propellants with nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer. The pressure-fed engine allows for multiple re-ignitions. Fuel and oxidizer are stored in...

S2CID 209483259. "An Ingenious Pressure Fed Engine", The Motor Cycle, 29 February 1912, p223 "The Low Forced Induction Engine", The Motor Cycle, 24 Oct 1912...

structure, pressure-fed engines using N2O4 / UDMH, later LOX /RP-1, with pintle injectors scaled up from TRW's Lunar Module Descent Engine (LMDE). The...

A nuclear lightbulb is a hypothetical type of spacecraft engine using a gaseous fission reactor to achieve nuclear propulsion. Specifically, it would be...

the Curie engine. Rocket Lab has also developed a version of the Curie engine with more thrust called HyperCurie. While Curie is pressure-fed, HyperCurie...

turbopumps, most hypergolic engines are pressure fed. A gas, usually helium, is fed to the propellant tanks under pressure through a series of check and...

thrust that combustive rocket engines can achieve. The maximum thrust of a cold gas thruster is dependent upon the pressure in the storage tank. As fuel...

in-space propulsion is proposed in which propellant is not ejected from the engine, but instead is captured to create a nearly infinite specific impulse"....

updated to the Euro 6 standard; four piezo-electric injectors fed with very high pressure fuel from a common rail inject fuel directly into the combustion...

lowest possible), the more efficient the motor can be. However, in this engine the propellant can be any of many fluids having suitable properties as it...

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...

Matthew E. Caplan of Illinois State University has proposed a type of stellar engine that uses a Dyson swarm of mirrors to concentrate stellar energy onto certain...

The BT-4 is a pressure-fed liquid rocket engine designed and manufactured by IHI Aerospace of Japan. It was originally developed for the LUNAR-A project...

fitted with a piston for fuel expulsion. Propellants were fed into the engine by pressure from solid-propellant gas generator that used a double base...

hybrid nuclear-electric engine design, which would have been able to work both in open-cycle mode as a nuclear thermal engine during mission phases requiring...

developed that used hypergolic propellants and a gimballed pressure-fed ablative cooled engine that was capable of being throttled. A lightweight cryogenic...

(mostly in Japan) MPD arcjet. Generally, a gaseous material is ionized and fed into an acceleration chamber, where the magnetic and electric fields are...

October 2022. Expander cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Staged combustion cycle Gas-generator cycle Electric-pump-fed engine Sutton, George (November...

radioisotope rocket or radioisotope thermal rocket is a type of thermal rocket engine that uses the heat generated by the decay of radioactive elements to heat...

An ion thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive...

high-voltage grid electrodes to accelerate ions with electrostatic forces. The ion engine was first demonstrated by German-born NASA scientist Ernst Stuhlinger, and...