Look up hypergolic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant combination used in a rocket engine, whose components...
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into two categories; hypergolic propellants, which ignite when the fuel and oxidizer make contact, and non-hypergolic propellants which require an ignition...
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Titan (rocket family) (section Hypergolic propellants)
the LR-87-5 engine, a modified version of the LR-87, that used a hypergolic propellant combination of nitrogen tetroxide (NTO) for its oxidizer and Aerozine...
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Oxygen fluoride (section Hypergolic propellant)
solubility of O3F2 in liquid oxygen, it has been shown to be hypergolic with most rocket propellant fuels. The mechanism involves the boiling off oxygen from...
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SpaceX Draco (category Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant)
Dragon spacecraft. SuperDraco uses the same storable (non-cryogenic) hypergolic propellant as the small Draco thrusters, but is much larger and delivers over...
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Rocket (section Propellant)
contact (hypergolic propellants), two liquids that must be ignited to react (like kerosene (RP1) and liquid oxygen, used in most liquid-propellant rockets)...
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over 100 kilometres (62 mi). The Volvo Flygmotor group also used a hypergolic propellant combination. They also used nitric acid for their oxidizer, but...
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SuperDraco (category Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant)
SuperDraco is a hypergolic propellant rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. It is part of the SpaceX Draco family of rocket engines. A redundant...
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1964. The Titan II was a two-stage liquid-fuel rocket, using a hypergolic propellant combination of Aerozine 50 fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer...
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changed in the 1960s. Both missile series introduced the use of hypergolic propellant, which could be stored in the missiles, allowing for rapid launches...
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rockets in both the United States and USSR by the late 1950s. It is a hypergolic propellant in combination with a hydrazine-based rocket fuel. One of the earliest...
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RCS systems used presented the primary dangers due to their toxic hypergolic propellant, and most of their components were permanently removed to prevent...
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contained its own Ascent Propulsion System (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command...
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transportation, or use within the state. Binary (chemical weapon) Hypergolic propellant "Feds keep closer eye on legal explosives with potential for misuse"...
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RS-88 (category Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant)
the oxidizer. It offered 220 kN (49,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. A hypergolic derivative of the RS-88, fueled by monomethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide...
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liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids...
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Hydrazine (section Gas producers and propellants)
1002/14356007.a13_177. ISBN 3-527-30673-0. "A Summary of NASA and USAF Hypergolic Propellant Related Spills and Fires" (PDF). Kennedy Space Center. Suggs HJ...
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stages; all of them powered by liquid rocket engines using the hypergolic propellant combination of dinitrogen tetroxide as the oxidizer, and unsymmetrical...
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unpressurized and contained a main service propulsion engine and hypergolic propellant to enter and leave lunar orbit, a reaction control system to provide...
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launch vehicles use chemical propellants such as solid fuel, liquid hydrogen, kerosene, liquid oxygen, or hypergolic propellants. Launch vehicles are classified...
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United States and USSR by the late 1950s. This is because it is a hypergolic propellant in combination with a hydrazine-based rocket fuel and can be easily...
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Liquid apogee engine (section Propellant)
This propellant is usually, but not restricted to, a hypergolic combination such as: N 2H 4/N 2O 4, MMH/N 2O 4, UDMH/N 2O 4. Hypergolic propellant combinations...
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double the payload. Unlike the Titan I, it used hydrazine-based hypergolic propellant which was storable and reliably ignited. This reduced time to launch...
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Raman Engine (category Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant)
after Indian Nobel laureate Sir C.V. Raman. It uses UDMH and NTO hypergolic propellants. Its injector plate is completely 3D printed. This engine will be...
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participates in propulsion systems testing, with test expertise in hypergolic and mono-propellant handling and training. During the orbiter's life WSTF also managed...
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This combination is hypergolic, making for attractively simple ignition sequences. The major inconvenience is that these propellants are highly toxic and...
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of 36 feet 2.5 inches (11.04 m) including the engine bell. The hypergolic propellant service propulsion engine was sized at 20,500 pounds-force (91,000 N)...
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of a rupture of the diaphragm. Diaphragm tanks are used to store hypergolic propellant aboard space probes and various other spacecraft. Pressure regulators...
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AJ10 (category Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant)
The AJ10 is a hypergolic rocket engine manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne (previously Aerojet). It has been used to propel the upper stages of several...
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Vikas (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant)
portmanteau from initials of VIKram Ambalal Sarabhai ) is a family of hypergolic liquid fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by the Liquid...
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