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Liquid-propellant rocket
Rocket engine that uses liquid fuels and oxidizers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Rocket-powered aircraft.
A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids are desirable propellants because they have reasonably high density and their combustion products have high specific impulse (Isp). This allows the volume of the propellant tanks to be relatively low.
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- Liquid rocket fuel.
- Oxidizer.
- Pumps carry the fuel and oxidizer.
- The combustion chamber mixes and burns the two liquids.
- Combustion product gasses enter the nozzle through a throat.
- Exhaust exits the rocket.