A liquid apogee engine (LAE), or apogee engine, refers to a type of chemical rocket engine typically used as the main engine in a spacecraft. The name...

Hohmann transfer orbit Liquid apogee engine List of upper stages Multistage rocket Space tug Jonathan McDowell, "Kick In the Apogee: 40 years of upper stage...

originally developed for the LUNAR-A project, but it has been used as a liquid apogee engine in some geostationary communications satellite based on the Lockheed...

chemical rocket engines manufactured by Nammo at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. LEROS engines have been used as primary apogee engines for telecommunications...

This eliminates the need for the spacecraft to include a liquid apogee engine or an apogee kick motor. Yuanzheng has a thrust of 6.5 kN (1,500 lbf) with...

microwaves Liquid Apogee Engine – A liquid-propellant rocket used as the primary propulsion device on geostationary orbit satellites. Apogee kick motor...

liquid apogee engine (LAE) and several Hall-effect thrusters, a process which normally takes 105 days. However, the satellite's Liquid Apogee Engine malfunctioned...

the 702MP platform uses both its bipropellant thrusters and LEROS liquid apogee engine. Intelsat is the lead customer for the 702MP. Boeing built Intelsat...

using Nitrogen tetroxide (NTO) / N2O4. It has a 449 N (101 lbf) liquid apogee engine for orbit raising and 22 N (4.9 lbf) and 4 N (0.90 lbf) thrusters...

supersynchronous-apogee transfer orbit with a perigee of 275 km, an apogee of 50,000 km, an inclination of 22.1°. The satellite vehicle's liquid apogee engine (LAE)...

requirements. This tank's maximum length was later increased to 2.55 m. The liquid apogee engine uses hydrazine fuel from the central tank along with nitrogen tetroxide...

reached their apogee during World War II, following which they were mostly replaced by jet engines. In Formula One racing, V12 engines were common during...

position of the Superbird. Its propulsion system included an R-4D-11 liquid apogee engine (LAE) with a thrust of 490 N (110 lbf). It included enough propellant...

then closed around the booster before the engines shut down. The upper stage Starship spacecraft reached an apogee of 212 km (132 mi) before a controlled...

environment friendly white fairing. Five days later, all four planned Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) firings were completed. The spacecraft is now in the geosynchronous...

and 40,000 lbf. (57,827 and 177,929 N). At the same time, TR-306 liquid apogee engines were used on the Anik E-1/E-2 and Intelsat K spacecraft. In August...

The S400 is a family of pressure fed liquid propelled rocket engines manufactured by ArianeGroup (former Airbus DS) at the Orbital Propulsion Centre in...

liquid-fueled rocket engine developed in the 1950s by Rocketdyne, a division of North American Aviation. It was designed to serve as a booster engine...

rocket engines (derived from the RS-27 main engine of the Delta II rocket) burning 156 t (344,000 lb) of RP-1 and liquid oxygen. The two booster engines were...

The satellites were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The liquid apogee engine of the satellite then raises it to geostationary orbit. Later Indonesia...

spacecraft's 440-newton (99 lbf) liquid engine was fired for 416 seconds. With this engine firing, the spacecraft's apogee was raised to 28,825 km (17,911 mi)...

liquid or gas while avoiding the cost and complexity of a conventional pump. Natural convection of the liquid starts when heat transfer to the liquid...

of both. The booster rocket is powered by one BE-3PM engine, which sends the capsule to an apogee (Sub-Orbital) of 100.5 kilometres (62.4 mi) and flies...

increased its range. The first stage engine appears very similar to the Hwasong-12. With a single liquid fuel engine, it has four Vernier thrusters for...

use of its fuel. Liquid core nuclear engines are fueled by compounds of fissionable elements in liquid phase. A liquid-core engine is proposed to operate...

position of the Superbird. Its propulsion system included an R-4D-11 liquid apogee engine (LAE) with a thrust of 490 N (110 lbf). It included enough propellant...

long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany...

four-chamber RD-170 engine burning kerosene/LOX, and a central core stage with four single-chamber RD-0120 (11D122) engines fueled by liquid hydrogen/LOX. The...

the objective of testing a lithergol fueled rocket engine (an hybrid mixture of solid and liquid propellants - Nylon-metatolueneamine as fuel and mixture...

based on the A2100-AX platform, it uses a 460 N (100 lbf) LEROS-1C liquid apogee engine (LAE) for orbit raising. Its solar panels span 26.9 m (88 ft) when...