Tests conducted at High Speed Flight Station, Edwards, Calif, to determine starting characteristics of simulated rocket engine with quantity of fuel lying dormant in main thrust chamber; results indicate that when residual fuel exists in combustion chamber at time of igniter start, it does not constitute hazard to chamber structure.


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    Title :

    Residual fuel expulsion from simulated 50,000-pound-thrust liquid-propellant rocket engine having continuous rocket-type igniter


    Additional title:

    NASA -- Memo


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1959


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English