To: Red Badger
Is this a spike rocket engine? They keep changing the name.
13 posted on
12/29/2023 2:23:20 PM PST by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: Delta 21
Is this a spike rocket engine? They keep changing the name.It uses an aerospike nozzle, but ignition is completely different.
Here's a good YouTube video that explains how it works.
See: How NASA Reinvented the Rocket Engine
18 posted on
12/29/2023 3:39:59 PM PST by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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