Explore: Thrust Chambers

thrust of all five thrust chambers was 360,000 lbf (1,600 kN) for a standard Atlas D. Atlas E/F had 375,000 pounds of thrust. Total sea level thrust for

will use a hydrolox (liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen) engine with 24 thrust chambers ringing a regeneratively cooled heatshield, eliminating the need for

variable-thrust rocket engine. First to fly a rocket with an engine having multiple (four) thrust chambers. First to test regenerative cooling of the thrust chamber

of the Rocketdyne MA-1 engines with conical thrust chambers that produced a mere 135,000 pounds of thrust, compared with the 360,000 pounds of the fully

differential steering method. In 15 seconds, the vehicle ignited its 15 thrust chambers (half of the amount used on the operational vehicle), lifted 30 feet

instability while designing bigger thrust chambers. At that time, they solved the problem by using a cluster of smaller thrust chambers. The RD-170 engine featured

dual-expander nozzle, dual-throat nozzle. These have either two throats or two thrust chambers (with corresponding throats). The central throat is of a standard design

sub-systems such as gas generators, sub-scale cryogenic engines, and thrust chambers. His efforts were instrumental in making India one of the six countries

on long range rockets as weapons. The Soviets began to redesign the thrust chambers of their rocket engines, as well as investigate better ignition systems

A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed jet