liquid propellant


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liquid propellant

Any liquid combustible fed to the combustion chamber of a rocket engine.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Ionic liquid propellant has high stability, environmental-friendly and equivalent energy with hydrazine propellant.
The long-range, liquid propellant DF-3 ballistic missile (NATO designated CSS-2), purchased from China 27 years ago, was displayed for the first time at a Saudi military parade Tuesday, April 29, in the eastern military town of Hafar Al-Batin, at the junction of the Saudi-Kuwaiti-Iraqi borders.
Fazeli said unlike the first rocket which was solid-fueled, the Pishgam II will use liquid propellant, according to Tehran Times daily.
Key technologies developed by the agency include solid- propellant motors, earth- storable liquid propellant engines, avionics and navigation systems.
Vega consists of three solid propellant stages and a Ukrainian-built restartable liquid propellant upper stage.
Sutton, History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines (Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006), 496-97; and M.
The naval missile, with a liquid propellant, is designed to target both sea and shore-based targets.
*** Isayev S2.711 (S5.711) liquid propellant sustainer powerplant, site accessed September 2010, http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-S-75-Volkhov.html
The liquid propellant is pressurized by a C[O.sub.2] cartridge and is pushed through a catalyst pack by the opening of one or more servovalves downstream.
Other papers cover topics ranging from before World War II to the present, including liquid propellant engines in the Soviet Union, early French aeronautics, asphalt rocket propellants and a Japanese rocket fighter, the parking lot rocket experiments of North American Aviation, the development of the Veronique and Vesta, the Netherlands in space, flight termination of the first large solid propellant rockets, the "Black Prince," a French satellite and commercial satellites in general, Russian space suits, exploration of the solar system from 1961 to 2000, studies of space biology, a Russian super-heavy rocket, Argentinean sounding rockets in Antarctica, and Australian rocket retrieval in the dessert.
Kraemer, "No one had written an overall history of Rocketdyne--the professional historians said there was not enough preserved documentation for them to write a proper history book--so I determined to visit key survivors of the 'glory days' of Rocketdyne to record their memories, add my own insight as a member of the team, and preserve the history of how large liquid propellant rocket engines evolved at Rocketdyne and why the team was so successful."
The Iranians seem to be trying to do the same thing with Shehab-3, a single-stage system powered by liquid propellant that was originally modelled on North Korea's No-Dong missile.