- A
turbopump is a
propellant pump with two main components: a
rotodynamic pump and a
driving gas turbine,
usually both
mounted on the same shaft, or sometimes...
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engine (LMDE).
Propellants are fed by a single-shaft, dual-impeller
turbopump. The
turbopump also
provides high-pressure
fluid for the
hydraulic actuators,...
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nominal 1.5
million pounds force, and the
designers deliberately added more
turbopump capability to
allow it to
expand to at
least 1.8
million and potentially...
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thrust chamber injector received the
propellants under pressure from the
turbopumps, then
mixed them in a
manner that
produced the most
efficient combustion...
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turbomolecular pump is a type of
vacuum pump,
superficially similar to a
turbopump, used to
obtain and
maintain high vacuum.
These pumps work on the principle...
- to a
turbopump failure. A
month later,
Atlas 6B also
suffered a
turbopump failure and the Air
Force gave in and
agreed to
replace the
turbopumps in all...
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through low-pressure fuel and
oxidizer turbopumps (LPFTP and LPOTP), and from
there into high-pressure
turbopumps (HPFTP and HPOTP). From
these HPTPs the...
- non-stoichiometric conditions,
increasing the
volume of flow
driving the
turbopumps that feed the
engine with propellant. The gas is then
injected into the...
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combustion chambers, all
supplied by one single-shaft, single-turbine
turbopump rated at 170 MW (230,000 hp) in a
staged combustion cycle.
Several Soviet...
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makes the
rotating speed of the
turbopump rotor as high as possible. For example, the
rotating speed of the
oxygen turbopump of the ****anese LE-7
rocket engine...
