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Shadowalker
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Re: Rocket Engines 101
06/09/09 12:17 PM
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Well, yes. There is such an engine design and we've tested it  It's called the Linear Aerospike Engine and the design has been around since the 1960s.
In this Wikipedia Article you can see the basic design and read about the theory. The photo is the engine we tested on the A1 test stand some years ago. With a J2 powerhead (gas generator and turbo pumps), it was supposed to go in the X33 Single Stage to Orbit vehicle. Yet another cancelled program.
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Tom Nicolaides
http://www.first-light.org
One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions.
— Wernher von Braun
Edited by Shadowalker (06/09/09 12:18 PM)
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