Dual mode rocket engine

Details Dual mode rocket engine Dual mode rocket engine

1991-05-23

1993-12-07

Bertsch, Richard A.

Power plants

Reaction motor

Method of operation

60259, 60267, F02K 900

Patent

active

052674371

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a rocket engine having a low operating mode in which propellants are provided to the combustion chamber by the combined effect of boost pumps and the pressure differential between the propellant tanks and the combustion chamber, and a high operating mode in which primary pumps further increase the pressure at which propellant is provided to the combustion chamber.

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"Space Shuttle Engines Stress Low Cost, Maintenance, Reuse." Automotive Engineering, Oct., 1972, pp. 21-29.

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