turbo pump

I listened to the high whine of the turbo pumps.

One is that turbo pumps had been removed from some missiles before they were destroyed.

Turbo pumps and gyroscopes are two key missile pieces Iraq does not manufacture.

A main engine turbo pump was recovered near Fort Polk, La.

The propulsion system consists of four liquid propellant rocket motors with a common turbo pump unit.

We have thirty-six combustion chambers and eighteen turbo pumps; the fuel system is liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

For instance, a single drive shaft often spins both fuel and oxidizer turbo pumps, in contrast to separate shafts and pumps on many Western engines.

According to ISRO mission failed after the fuel turbo pump that supplied fuel to the cryogenic engine had stopped working a second after ignition.

The TR107 engine used oxygen-rich combustion (ORSC) products to alleviate soot build-up when running the turbo pumps.

An additional ion pump can be started below 10 Torr to remove gases which are not adequately handled by a cryopump or turbo pump, such as helium or hydrogen.

Turbo pump and the pressurized combustion chmaber oxide expression and Korea using the engine's output is low, the elderly KARI KSR-3 rocket science issues were favorable.

For instance, on the shuttle's main engine, the low-pressure turbo pump, which feeds the engine fuel, has been judged to have a minimum and a maximum pressure between which it will operate correctly and safely.

One possibility would be that the fuel be pressurized to 100 bar by a turbo pump, heated by the fuselage, sent through the turbine and accelerated to higher speeds than the air by a nozzle.

The basic principles of the Fastrac design (namely, a pintle injector and ablatively cooled chamber) lived on in SpaceX's Merlin 1a engine, which even uses a turbo pump from the same subcontractor.

The engine burns the Russian equivalent of RP-1 fuel and LOX oxidizer in four combustion chambers, all supplied by one single-shaft, single-turbine turbo pump rated at 170 MW, in a staged combustion cycle.

Turbo pumps mix air and fuel in rocket engines, and must push enough fuel into the engine even under the strain of sudden acceleration during launching, said Gary Milhollin, the director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.

When the engines fire up, the turbo pumps work at forty thousand revs per minute, a thousand gallons of fuel are consumed every second-" "All very impressive, Malenfant," Della said, "but I'm hardly likely to be overwhelmed by engineering gosh-wow numbers.

The legal section of the report confirms an account last month in the German magazine Der Spiegel that Thyssen Maschinenbau GmbH had a contract to deliver 305 high-speed turbo pumps to the Iraqi missile program, and delivered 35 before German customs blocked further shipments.

The German report says, "The technical description of the pumps leaves no doubt that these turbo pumps were used for the rocket engine of the Scud B." Alfred Wewers, a spokesman for Thyssen Maschinenbau, said the shipment was being investigated by German authorities.