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US 2020/0049103 A1Published application
Aerospike Rocket Engine
OwnerChristopher Craddock, Donald Plattinventors
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Abstract
An aerospike rocket, engine having individually throttleable thrusters arranged in an annular ring around an aerospike, and a bi-propellant system having a catalyst system for combining a solid propellant and a hydrocarbon fuel, and an additional convergent-divergent flow for each thruster which combine into a main combustion chamber for the aerospike.
Claims12
An aerospike rocket engine system comprising:
- an exhaust control spike,
- a plurality of thrusters arranged in an annular ring, wherein each of said thrusters comprise at least one combustion chamber having an exhaust aperture disposed proximate to the exhaust control spike, and whereby each exhaust aperture of said plurality of thrusters are arranged an annular ring around said exhaust control spike,
- at least one fuel system,
- at least one catalyst system operatively connected to said fuel system for receiving a fuel, and wherein said catalyst system is disposed proximate to at least one combustion chamber, and is operatively connected to the combustion chamber, and
- a fuel and catalyst control system operatively connected to said fuel system and said catalyst system for controlling flow of a fuel and a catalyst.
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