Power plants – Reaction motor
Patent
1979-06-18
1981-12-15
Garrett, Robert E.
Power plants
Reaction motor
602031, F02K 0000
Patent
active
043052479
ABSTRACT:
Specific impulse of hydrazine thruster is augmented by electrothermally heating the hot gas in heater passages 36 and 37 as it passes from hydrazine dissociation chamber 14 to thrust nozzle 28. Tubular ceramic electric resistance heater 31 performs primary heating. Specific impulse can be raised from 230 to 300 seconds.
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DuPont Preston S.
Ellion M. Edmund
Meese Robert A.
Dicke, Jr. Allen A.
Garrett Robert E.
Hughes Aircraft Company
MacAllister W. H.
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