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- A propellant (or propellent) is a mass that is expelled or expanded in such a way as to create a thrust or another motive force in accordance with Newton's...29 KB (3,818 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2024
hypergolic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant combination used in a rocket engine, whose components spontaneously...24 KB (2,470 words) - 20:55, 14 June 2024
liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids...53 KB (6,613 words) - 18:50, 10 June 2024
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...44 KB (5,405 words) - 21:45, 11 June 2024- The highest specific impulse chemical rockets use liquid propellants (liquid-propellant rockets). They can consist of a single chemical (a monopropellant)...49 KB (3,533 words) - 19:23, 12 June 2024
preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the staged combustion cycle, propellant flows through multiple combustion...26 KB (2,607 words) - 21:03, 14 June 2024
A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or...56 KB (6,888 words) - 11:03, 17 June 2024
Caseless ammunition (redirect from Internal propellant caseless ammunition)prototypes and low-powered guns, with some exceptions. Older caseless ammunition typically uses a configuration where the primer and propellant get integrated...20 KB (2,366 words) - 16:03, 28 May 2024- perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) is a solid rocket propellant. It differs from many traditional solid rocket propellants such as black powder or...15 KB (2,014 words) - 18:04, 15 June 2024
Ion thruster (section Propellants)This reduces the amount of reaction mass or propellant required, but increases the amount of specific power required compared to chemical rockets. Ion...85 KB (8,747 words) - 19:50, 17 May 2024
An orbital propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is placed in orbit around Earth or another body to allow spacecraft or the transfer stage of...73 KB (7,958 words) - 08:04, 13 June 2024- Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant, or ALICE, is a rocket propellant that consists of nano-aluminum powder and water. After mixing, the material is frozen...5 KB (550 words) - 20:27, 1 May 2024
Rocket engine (section Propellant)inert propellant, heated by electricity (electrothermal propulsion) or a nuclear reactor (nuclear thermal rocket). Chemical rockets are powered by exothermic...101 KB (11,741 words) - 14:30, 15 June 2024
Rocket propellant is the reaction mass of a rocket. This reaction mass is ejected at the highest achievable velocity from a rocket engine to produce thrust...29 KB (3,883 words) - 12:11, 15 May 2024
Rocket (category Rocket-powered aircraft)to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of...107 KB (11,386 words) - 20:33, 31 May 2024
Hall-effect thruster (section Propellants)a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based on the...39 KB (4,351 words) - 14:02, 26 May 2024- original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2013. "RD-117". Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved...78 KB (1,971 words) - 17:22, 7 April 2024
- The propulsion system is controlled by power electronics. Electric thrusters typically use much less propellant than chemical rockets because they have...20 KB (1,982 words) - 05:41, 29 May 2024
- using propellant or a jet engine using fuel, generates thrust. A propulsion system with a higher specific impulse uses the mass of the propellant more...27 KB (3,833 words) - 17:54, 21 April 2024
Fusion rocket (category Fusion power)resulting energy release could expel propellant out the back of the spacecraft. Helium-3 is proposed as a power source for spacecraft mainly because of...16 KB (1,768 words) - 02:44, 16 June 2024
- removal, replacement, and servicing of the emergency power unit of an aircraft with H-70 propellant (30 percent water, 70 percent hydrazine); (2) participation
- high-pressure gas produced chemically by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge. Arranged alphabetically by author or source:
- improved solar and nuclear electric power sources are developed since they use roughly an order of magnitude less propellant than chemical rockets. Their disadvantage