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Liquid rocket fuel. Oxidizer. Pumps carry the fuel and oxidizer. The combustion chamber mixes and burns the two liquids. The hot exhaust is choked at the throat, which, among other things, dictates the amount of thrust produced. Exhaust exits the rocket.
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The second stage of a Minuteman III rocket. A multistage rocket or step rocket [1] is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem or serial stage is mounted on top of another stage; a parallel stage is attached alongside another stage. The result is effectively two or ...
Name Country Flown on Proposed for Status Remarks Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage United States Vulcan: In development Agena United States Atlas, Thor, Thorad, Titan IIIB ...
The RTV-G-4 Bumper was a sounding rocket built by the United States. A combination of the German V-2 rocket and the WAC Corporal sounding rocket, it was used to study problems pertaining to two-stage high-speed rockets. The Bumper program launched eight rockets between May 13, 1948 and July 29, 1950. [1]
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VTVL rocket concepts were studied by Philip Bono of Douglas Aircraft Co. in the 1960s. [4] Apollo Lunar Module was a 1960s two-stage VTVL vehicle for landing and taking off from the Moon. Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group successfully launched the Hoveroc rocket on 2 May 1981 in a test at Port Wakefield, South Australia. [5]
The Super Soaker, the Nerf dart guns, my invention on the Galileo spacecraft, the lithium battery technology that I'm developing right now, the solid state batteries as well as the lithium fuel cells.