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History of liquid propellant rocket engines
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Embry Riddle Aero University - CIRCCOLL - Circulating Collection
TL783.4.S88 2006
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TL783.4.S88 2006
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9781563476495
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Table of Contents
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Glossary of Abbreviations and Symbols xv --
2 Merits of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines and Their Applications 5 --
2.1 Why Were Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines Used? 5 --
2.2 Early Applications 6 --
2.3 Current Applications 16 --
3 Technology Trends and Historical Changes 23 --
3.1 Expanding the Range of the Thrust, 0.01 to 1,800,000 lbf 23 --
3.2 Increasing the Chamber Pressure 25 --
3.3 So Many Liquid Propellants 25 --
3.4 Engines Can Come in Families 27 --
3.5 Thrust-to-Engine Weight Ratio Has Gone Up 28 --
3.6 Costs Have Gone Down 29 --
3.7 Extra Functions Have Increased Engine Complexity 29 --
3.8 Reliable Operations Were Achieved 32 --
4 Technology and Hardware 33 --
4.1 Propellants, Past and Present 33 --
4.2 Engine Systems 54 --
4.3 Large Thrust Chambers 74 --
4.4 Turbopumps 108 --
4.5 Gas Generators, Preburners, and Chemical Tank Pressurization 131 --
4.6 Small Thrusters for Attitude Control and Trajectory Corrections 147 --
4.7 Controls, Valves, and Interconnecting Components 182 --
4.8 Starting and Ignition 201 --
4.9 Steering or Flight Trajectory Control 218 --
4.10 Combustion and Vibrations 228 --
5 Early Years, 1903 to the 1940s 241 --
5.1 Konstantin E. Tsiolkowsky 241 --
5.2 Robert H. Goddard 247 --
5.3 Hermann Oberth 271 --
5.4 Other Pioneers 276 --
5.5 Amateur Rocket Societies 281 --
5.6 Early Team Efforts 289 --
6 Liquid Propellant Rocket-Engine Organizations, Worldwide, 1932 to 2003 293 --
7 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in the United States (Summary) 303 --
7.1 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine Developers and Manufacturers in the United States 307 --
7.2 Reaction Motors, Inc. 311 --
7.3 General Electric Company 327 --
7.4 Curtiss-Wright Corporation 346 --
7.5 M.W. Kellogg Company 351 --
7.6 Walter Kidde and Company 356 --
7.7 Aerojet Propulsion Company, a Subsidiary Unit of Gen Corp, Inc. 359 --
7.8 Boeing Company, Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power 404 --
7.9 Propulsion Products Center, Northrop Grumman Corporation 474 --
7.10 Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Company 491 --
7.11 Atlantic Research Corporation (ARC), Liquid Rocket Division 510 --
8 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union 531 --
8.1 Early History (1929-1944) 532 --
8.2 Rocket Engines for Piloted Aircraft 559 --
8.3 Organizations Working on Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines 577 --
8.4 NPO Energomash 585 --
8.5 KB Khimautomatiki or Chemical Automatics Design Bureau 629 --
8.6 KB Khimmash or Chemical Machinery Design Bureau 661 --
8.7 Nll Mashinostroeniya or the R&D Institute of Mechanical Engineering 684 --
8.8 NPO Saturn, formerly OKB Lyulka 693 --
8.9 OKB Kuznetsov, Reorganized as NPO Samara 698 --
8.10 NPO Youzhnoye 710 --
8.11 Korolev's Design Bureau, Later NPO Energiya 721 --
8.12 OKB Fakel 725 --
8.13 R&D Institutes 726 --
8.14 Summary of Soviet or Russian Efforts in Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines 728 --
9 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in Germany 737 --
9.1 Early Efforts and Early Propellant Evaluations 738 --
9.2 Army Research Station at Peenemunde 740 --
9.3 Hellmuth Walter Corporation 754 --
9.4 Bayrische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works) 763 --
9.5 German Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines Since 1945 769 --
10 France's Liquid Propellant Rocket-Engine History 785 --
11 Japan's Liquid Propellant Rocket-Engine History 815 --
12 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in the United Kingdom or Britain 843 --
13 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in the People's Republic of China 865 --
14 Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in India 881 --
15 General Findings, Comments, and Conclusions 887.
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