To increase payload and decrease the cost of future Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs), engineers at NASA/MSFC and Boeing, Rocketdyne are developing unshrouded impeller technology for application to rocket turbopumps. An unshrouded two-stage high-pressure fuel pump is being developed to meet the performance objectives of a three-stage shrouded pump. The new pump will have reduced manufacturing costs and pump weight. The lower pump weight will allow for increased payload.
Unshrouded Impeller Technology Development Status
2000
10 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Unshrouded Impeller Technology Task Status
NTIS | 2001
|High Head Unshrouded Impeller Pump Stage Technology
NTIS | 2000
|High head unshrouded impeller pump stage technology
AIAA | 2000
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