About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Solid-fuel rocket, Tripropellant rocket, Aerospike engine, H-1, Rocket engine, Space Shuttle main engine, Liquid-propellant rocket, Merlin, Bristol Siddeley Gamma, F-1, Thrust-to-weight ratio, RL10, J-2, M-1, NK-33, Vulcain, Chemical Automatics Design Bureau, E-1, LE-7, Staged combustion cycle, Aeolipile, Expander cycle, LR-87, RD-253, RD-180, Rocket engine test facility, RD-270, RD-170, LE-5, Vinci, RD-701, RD-191, Fastrac, Kestrel, Viking, HM7B, CE-20, Gas generator, Rolls-Royce RZ2, RD-107, Pressure-fed cycle, Star 48, RD-0146, Gas-generator cycle, Integrated powerhead demonstrator, AJ-10, Jetex engine, RS-83, RD-0124, Draco, TR-106, Ullage motor, Waxwing, RD-8, 1.8KS7800, RD-120, RS-27A, CE-7.5, Gimballed thrust, 1.9KS2150, YF-50t, Vikas engine, 1.5KS35000, SERN, Aerotech Consumer Aerospace, YF-100, Reaction Motors XLR11, RL60, Dushkin S-155, RocketMotorTwo, MS-II, KARI 30-ton rocket engine. Excerpt: A rocket engine, or simply "rocket," is a jet engine that uses only propellant mass for forming its high speed propulsive jet. Rocket engines are reaction engines and obtain thrust in accordance with Newton's third law. Since they need no external material to form their jet, rocket engines can be used for spacecraft propulsion as well as terrestrial uses, such as missiles. Most rocket engines are internal combustion engines, although non combusting forms also exist. Rocket engines as a group have the highest exhaust velocities, are by far the lightest, but are the least propellant efficient of all types of jet engines. Chemical rockets are rockets powered by exothermic chemical reactions of the propellant. Rocket motor (or solid-propellant rocket motor) is a synonymous term with rocket engine that usually refers to solid rocket engines. Liquid rockets (or liquid-propellant rocket engine) use one or more liquid prope...
