Yuzhnoye's new liquid rocket engines as enablers for space exploration
Abstract
Advanced liquid rocket engines (LREs) are being created by Yuzhnoye Design Office of Ukraine based on the fifty-year experience of rocket engines' and propulsion systems' development. These LREs use both hypergolic (NTO+UDMH) and cryogenic (liquid oxygen+kerosene) propellants. First stage engines have a range of thrust from 40 to 250 t, while the upper stage (used in space) engines - from several kilograms to 50 t and a re-ignition feature. The engines are intended for both Ukraine;s independent access to space and international market.
- Publication:
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Acta Astronautica
- Pub Date:
- October 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.04.006
- Bibcode:
- 2016AcAau.127..693D
- Keywords:
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- Oxygen-kerosene LRE;
- Closed-cycle scheme;
- Main rocket engine;
- Thrust;
- Specific impulse