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Here, a Soyuz rocket takes off in 2023, carrying three of the Expedition 70 crew to the International Space Station. This initial stage of the Soyuz launch vehicle uses four identical rocket boosters lashed around the second stage core. Each of the boosters has a rocket engine with four combustion chambers (and thus four exhaust nozzles) of its own. That creates the fiery flurry of engine plumes seen here. Most of the exhaust plumes are directed downward to provide the thrust needed to lift the rocket, but you can see a few angled slightly to either side to help stabilize the launch vehicle as it rises. (Image credit: NASA)

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The #engine section of a #Delta II #rocket.
The main engine is a #Rocketdyne #RS27A that burns kerosene and liquid oxygen.
On either side of the center engine nozzle, the two yellow and white portions that seem covered in fabric with red openings are #vernier thrusters to maintain attitude control.

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#Rocket engines need to feed propellant, fuel and oxidizer, to the #combustion chamber as fast as possible, so some of the fuel is burned to create hot gas to drive a turbine that drives a turbopump.
The hot gas is then ejected from the #engine.
The designers of the pictured F-1 chose to vent the exhaust along the #RocketEngine’s #nozzle, protecting it from the hotter gases from the main exhaust.

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The #Rocketdyne RS-25 or #SSME was upgraded to the RS-25D, capable of 104% of the original #thrust.
The #RS25 is being modified into the RS-25E, and expendable version for the Space Launch System.
Rocketdyne’s experience with the SSME led them to create the expendable RS-68 for the Delta IV launch vehicle, though it was not suited for SLS due to the large solid rocket boosters on the #SLS #rocket.

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#RocketEngine, #AtlantisMuseum, #Photograph

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Relativity Space is an American aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Long Beach, California. Relativity Space is developing manufacturing technologies, launch vehicles, and rocket engines for commercial orbital launch services. The company is notable for manufacturing most of their Terran 1 and Terran R rocket parts using 3D printing.

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#space #spaceflight #nasa #relativity #relativityspace #rocketengine #engine #Aviation #Aerospace #Technology #AeonR #TerranR

#NASA demonstrated a small #rocket #engine that burned #methane + #LOX in it’s Project #Morpheus craft, intended to test both the engine and technology to allow for more accurate and safer landings of robotic landers.
The #CH4 and #LiquidOxygen are stored in the silver-foil covered spheres, with the engine in the middle.

Congratulations to the United Launch Alliance for their first launch of their #methane LOX powered Vulcan-Centaur.

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#ProjectMorpheus, #LOXMethane, #RocketEngine, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #Photography

A #photograph of the #Apollo Service Module’s side, showing one of the four #thruster quads that helped the #spacecraft control its attitude and position.
Each #quad has four R-4D #rocket #engines.
Similar thrusters have been flying on spacecraft ever since, including the new lunar exploration spacecraft Orion.

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#Apollo, #ApolloServiceModule, #ApolloCSM, #ReactionControlSystem, #RCS, #ThrusterQuad, #R4D, #RocketEngine, #Photography