Chemical Propulsion at CSTAR continues to expand its activities and areas of interest. Several new initiatives are being developed which are extensions of, or replacements for, earlier projects. One current focus is on reassessing promising engine cycles and the enabling technologies for implementing them. These engine cycles which include advanced hybrids, and staged combustion cycles have the use of oxygen as a working fluid and coolant in common. Oxygen is used as a turbine drive gas, tank pressurant and as a cooling medium for combustion devices. CSTAR has interest in the propellant feed systems for advanced rocket engines, including propellant conditioning and tank pressurization, gas generators, and turbomachinery. CSTAR's interests also include propellant injection into the main chamber. These aspects of rocket propulsion embody a diverse range of technical disciplines and technologies, critical to the pursuit of low cost space access. The chemical propulsion program at CSTAR includes active projects investigating hybrid rocket engine oxygen feed systems, hybrid rocket injectors, gas fed hybrid rocket combustion, elements of main injectors for staged combustion devices. CSTAR is actively seeking industrial partners interested in joint participation in one or more phases of the analyses, design, development and application of propulsion technologies and related technical disciplines.
Overview 1993: Chemical Propulsion at CSTAR
1993
5 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Fuels , Rocket Propellants , Chemical propulsion , Feed systems , Fuel combustion , Fuel tank pressurization , Gas generators , Gas turbines , Propellant tanks , Propulsion system configurations , Propulsion system performance , Technology assessment , Aerospace industry , Coolants , Flow distribution , Gas injection , Gas mixtures , Liquid oxygen , Rocket propellants , Thermodynamic cycles , Working fluids
Overview 1993: Chemical propulsion at CSTAR
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