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- of this document is to create a preliminary index of all the rockets, engines, and propulsive mechanisms indexed in the Atomic Rockets website, for purpo ...d may also be of interest, as a subsection on categories and on particular engines. E.g. the history for NPP is straightup hilarious (as well as being foundat ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 10:06, 9 October 2023
- ...elocity than practically anything else. In fact, it burns so hot that most engines move away from the ideal ratio of hydrogen to oxygen to reduce the temperat ...e. Other factors come into play that reduce the attractiveness of hydrolox engines. They can be critical obstacles, like the huge volume of propellant tanks m ...7 KB (1,216 words) - 14:38, 23 April 2024
- Ion engines are a form of electromagnetic propulsion using ions and other charged parti ...re a common propulsion choice for satellites and as interplanetary transit engines for spacecraft. They are a poor choice for any use that requires high thrus ...23 KB (3,465 words) - 14:38, 23 April 2024
- ...gnites the tinder. In addition to starting camp fires, this is how Diesel engines work – fuel is squirted into a piston and compressed until it spontan =Heat engines= ...18 KB (3,108 words) - 14:34, 23 April 2024
- ...ver, it also has a tremendous heat capacity, making it very useful for any engines which need cooling or for using some kind of transpiration heating. Hydroge ...ulse, combined with high specific heat, meaning that cooling Alcohol-fired engines is generally a cakewalk. However, their very boringness starts to hurt them ...18 KB (2,944 words) - 14:42, 23 April 2024
- ...fference between a 'pound of force' and a 'pound of mass'). Airbreathing engines define a different unit of "specific fuel consumption" based on lb/hour rat ...12 KB (1,945 words) - 14:49, 23 April 2024
- Today, you can find solid rocket motors serving as engines in military rockets, going from small anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles ...10 KB (1,649 words) - 14:52, 23 April 2024
- They typically accelerate very slowly, like ion-engines. ...ch force, putting them in the same category of low-thrust methods like ion-engines. ...30 KB (5,110 words) - 14:51, 23 April 2024
- ...candescent beams. Hover sleds. Menacing robots. Spaceships with obscure engines pumping rocket plasma into the void of space. Unexplained glowing things c ...fuel. There are various and very important differences about what kind of engines they can burn in, but those are beyond the scope of this article. The main ...111 KB (18,212 words) - 19:25, 15 February 2025
- The most famous example of how energy conversion is lossy is [[Heat Engines|Carnot's ideal heat engine]] . From a thermodynamical perspective, the reas ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 14:35, 23 April 2024
- ...were trying to figure out how to make really high powered lasers. Rocket engines are really high powered, right? So how about taking a rocket engine, burn ...25 KB (4,128 words) - 14:39, 23 April 2024
- ...view of Electromagnetic Guns: Electromagnetic Guns, Launchers and Reaction Engines", 1980 https://coilgun.info/theorymath/electroguns.htm</ref> ...33 KB (5,351 words) - 22:42, 4 June 2024