Succession and Modernization of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines of Space Launch Vehicles
| Authors: Yagodnikov D.A. | Published: 29.08.2013 |
| Published in issue: #1(82)/2011 | |
| Category: Power-generating and Transport Machine Building | |
| Keywords: liquid-propellant rocket engines, energy-mass characteristics, reliability, liquid propellants, launch vehicles | |
Basic approaches and implementation methods for improving energy-mass characteristics and reliability of oxygen-kerosene liquid-propellant rocket engines of the space launch vehicles of the R-7 family, developed in NPO Energomash im. V.P. Glushko and KB Khimavtomatiki im. S.A. Kosberg, are considered. Main advantages of using liquid methane as fuel for a cruise multiple-usage liquid-propellant rocket engine are given.
