- The
staged combustion cycle (sometimes
known as
topping cycle,
preburner cycle, or
closed cycle) is a
power cycle of a
bipropellant rocket engine. In...
- twin-shaft
staged combustion cycle that uses both oxidizer-rich and fuel-rich
preburners. The
cycle allows for the full flow of both
propellants through the turbines...
-
employs an oxygen-rich
preburner,
unlike typical fuel-rich US designs. The
thermodynamics of the
cycle allow an oxygen-rich
preburner to give a
greater power-to-weight...
-
bipropellant liquid rocket engines.
Propellant is
burned in a gas
generator (or "
preburner") and the
resulting hot gas is used to
power the
propellant pumps before...
- only hydrogen,
allowing for
greater specific impulse. The RD-701 has two
preburners per
combustion chamber, both of
which run
oxygen rich. One is used to...
- full-duration burns, and one that
supports short-duration, high-pressure
preburner tests. The
spaceport also
includes a
vehicle processing facility and an...
- air/hydrogen
injectors for the
SABRE preburners. In 2020,
Airborne Engineering conducted a test
campaign on an "HX3 module" (
preburner to
helium loop heat exchanger)...
-
Center A-3 Test
stand for
development testing. They
expected to
start preburner testing in that or the
following quarter,
hopefully starting full engine...
-
Preburner ignition test
article and Hot test...
- 100
development tests of
several elements of the BE-4,
including the
preburner and a "regeneratively
cooled thrust chamber using multiple full-scale...
