Look up hypergolic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant combination used in a rocket engine, whose components...

into two categories; hypergolic propellants, which ignite when the fuel and oxidizer make contact, and non-hypergolic propellants which require an ignition...

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...

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...

over 100 kilometres (62 mi). The Volvo Flygmotor group also used a hypergolic propellant combination. They also used nitric acid for their oxidizer, but...

contact (hypergolic propellants), two liquids that must be ignited to react (like kerosene (RP1) and liquid oxygen, used in most liquid-propellant rockets)...

liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids...

Dragon spacecraft. SuperDraco uses the same storable (non-cryogenic) hypergolic propellant as the small Draco thrusters, but is much larger and delivers over...

1964. The Titan II was a two-stage liquid-fuel rocket, using a hypergolic propellant combination of Aerozine 50 fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer...

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...

changed in the 1960s. Both missile series introduced the use of hypergolic propellant, which could be stored in the missiles, allowing for rapid launches...

contained its own ascent propulsion system (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command...

174–184. doi:10.1002/recl.18960150606. "A Summary of NASA and USAF Hypergolic Propellant Related Spills and Fires" (PDF). Kennedy Space Center. Suggs HJ...

This combination is hypergolic, making for attractively simple ignition sequences. The major inconvenience is that these propellants are highly toxic and...

RCS systems used presented the primary dangers due to their toxic hypergolic propellant, and most of their components were permanently removed to prevent...

the same propellants and was used as the Falcon 1 rocket's second-stage main engine. Draco and SuperDraco are hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket engines...

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...

double the payload. Unlike the Titan I, it used hydrazine-based hypergolic propellant which was storable and reliably ignited. This reduced time to launch...

of a rupture of the diaphragm. Diaphragm tanks are used to store hypergolic propellant aboard space probes and various other spacecraft. Pressure regulators...

launch vehicles use chemical propellants such as solid fuel, liquid hydrogen, kerosene, liquid oxygen, or hypergolic propellants. Launch vehicles are classified...

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...

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel...

stages; all of them powered by liquid rocket engines using the hypergolic propellant combination of dinitrogen tetroxide as the oxidizer, and unsymmetrical...

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...

tetroxide (N2O4). This particular propellant combination is extremely reactive and spontaneously ignites on contact (hypergolic) with each other. This chemical...

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...

due to their high cost of operation and concerns over its toxic hypergolic propellants, and replaced with the Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles under...

Goddard and Stiff, and they arrived at a solution to the problem (hypergolic propellant: nitric acid and aniline), which resulted in the successful launch...

chimney-sweeping apparatus Valentyn Glushko (1908–1989), Russia – hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most...

unpressurized and contained a main service propulsion engine and hypergolic propellant to enter and leave lunar orbit, a reaction control system to provide...