Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Hypergolic propellant

Index Hypergolic propellant

A hypergolic propellant combination used in a rocket engine is one whose components spontaneously ignite when they come into contact with each other. [1]

92 relations: Aerozine 50, Alcohol, Aniline, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, Ariane (rocket family), Ariane 5, Atlas (rocket family), Bachem Ba 349, Ballistic missile, Braunschweig, Bristol Siddeley Gamma, C-Stoff, Carbon disulfide, Carcinogen, Centaur (rocket stage), Check valve, Corrosion, Corrosive substance, Cryogenics, Curtiss-Wright, Delta II, DFS 228, Dinitrogen tetroxide, Draco (rocket engine family), Falcon 9, Fuel, Furfuryl alcohol, Greek language, Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, Hard start, Heinkel P.1077, Helium, Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft, HGM-25A Titan I, High-test peroxide, Hybrid-propellant rocket, Hydrazine, Hydrogen peroxide, Indian Space Research Organisation, JATO, Kerosene, LGM-25C Titan II, Liquid hydrogen, Liquid oxygen, Liquid-propellant rocket, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, Merlin (rocket engine family), Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, MGM-52 Lance, ..., Monomethylhydrazine, Monopropellant, Nitric acid, Oxidizing agent, Periodic Videos, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, Proton (rocket family), Pyrophoricity, R-36 (missile), Reaction Motors, Red fuming nitric acid, RL10, Robert H. Goddard, Rocket engine, Rocketdyne F-1, Rocketdyne J-2, Roscosmos, RP-1, Safety valve, Saturn V, Solid-propellant rocket, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon, Spontaneous combustion, Sputnik (rocket), Sputnik 1, Submarine-launched ballistic missile, T-Stoff, Tetramethylethylenediamine, Toxicity, Triethylborane, Turbopump, Turpentine, University of Nottingham, Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, Valentin Glushko, WAC Corporal, Walter HWK 509, White fuming nitric acid, World War II. Expand index (42 more) »

Aerozine 50

Aerozine 50 is a 50/50 mix by weight of hydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH), originally developed in the late 1950s by Aerojet General Corporation as a storable, high-energy, hypergolic fuel for the Titan II ICBM rocket engines.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Aerozine 50 · See more »

Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Alcohol · See more »

Aniline

Aniline is an organic compound with the formula C6H5NH2.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Aniline · See more »

Apollo Command/Service Module

The Command/Service Module (CSM) was one of the two United States '''Apollo''' spacecraft, used for the Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Apollo Command/Service Module · See more »

Apollo Lunar Module

The Lunar Module (LM, pronounced "Lem"), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program by Grumman Aircraft to carry a crew of two from lunar orbit to the surface and back.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Apollo Lunar Module · See more »

Ariane (rocket family)

Ariane is a series of a European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Ariane (rocket family) · See more »

Ariane 5

Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle that is part of the Ariane rocket family, an expendable launch system used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) or low Earth orbit (LEO).

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Ariane 5 · See more »

Atlas (rocket family)

Atlas is a family of American missiles and space launch vehicles.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Atlas (rocket family) · See more »

Bachem Ba 349

The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (Colubrid, grass-snake) was a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, which was to be used in a very similar way to a manned surface-to-air missile.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Bachem Ba 349 · See more »

Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver one or more warheads on a predetermined target.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Ballistic missile · See more »

Braunschweig

Braunschweig (Low German: Brunswiek), also called Brunswick in English, is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river which connects it to the North Sea via the Aller and Weser rivers.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Braunschweig · See more »

Bristol Siddeley Gamma

The Armstrong Siddeley, later Bristol Siddeley Gamma was a family of rocket engines used in British rocketry, including the Black Knight and Black Arrow launch vehicles.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Bristol Siddeley Gamma · See more »

C-Stoff

C-Stoff ("C stuff") was a reductant used in bipropellant rocket fuels (as a fuel itself) developed by Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft in Germany during World War II.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and C-Stoff · See more »

Carbon disulfide

Carbon disulfide is a colorless volatile liquid with the formula CS2.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Carbon disulfide · See more »

Carcinogen

A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis, the formation of cancer.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Carcinogen · See more »

Centaur (rocket stage)

Centaur has been designed to be the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is used on the Atlas V. Centaur was the world's first high-energy upper stage, burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX).

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Centaur (rocket stage) · See more »

Check valve

A check valve, clack valve, non-return valve, reflux valve, retention valve or one-way valve is a valve that normally allows fluid (liquid or gas) to flow through it in only one direction.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Check valve · See more »

Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more chemically-stable form, such as its oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Corrosion · See more »

Corrosive substance

A corrosive substance is one that will destroy and damage other substances with which it comes into contact.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Corrosive substance · See more »

Cryogenics

In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Cryogenics · See more »

Curtiss-Wright

The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is an American-based, global diversified product manufacturer and service provider for the commercial, industrial, defense, and energy markets.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Curtiss-Wright · See more »

Delta II

Delta II is an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Delta II · See more »

DFS 228

The DFS 228 was a rocket-powered, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft designed by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Institute for Sailplane Flight") during World War II.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and DFS 228 · See more »

Dinitrogen tetroxide

Dinitrogen tetroxide, commonly referred to as nitrogen tetroxide, is the chemical compound N2O4.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Dinitrogen tetroxide · See more »

Draco (rocket engine family)

Draco is a family of hypergolic liquid rocket engines designed and built by SpaceX for use in their space capsules.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Draco (rocket engine family) · See more »

Falcon 9

Falcon 9 is a family of two-stage-to-orbit medium lift launch vehicles, named for its use of nine Merlin first-stage engines, designed and manufactured by SpaceX.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Falcon 9 · See more »

Fuel

A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as heat energy or to be used for work.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Fuel · See more »

Furfuryl alcohol

Furfuryl alcohol is an organic compound containing a furan substituted with a hydroxymethyl group.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Furfuryl alcohol · See more »

Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Greek language · See more »

Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory

The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), was a research institute created in 1926, at first specializing in aeronautics research.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory · See more »

Hard start

A hard start is a rocketry term referring to an overpressure condition during start of a rocket engine at ignition.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Hard start · See more »

Heinkel P.1077

The Heinkel P.1077 (or He P.1077) was a single seat interceptor design developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last year of the Third Reich.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Heinkel P.1077 · See more »

Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Helium · See more »

Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft

Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (HWK), commonly known as the Walter-Werke, was a German company founded by Professor Hellmuth Walter to pursue his interest in engines using hydrogen peroxide as a fuel.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft · See more »

HGM-25A Titan I

The Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I was the United States' first multistage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in use from 1959 until 1965.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and HGM-25A Titan I · See more »

High-test peroxide

High-test peroxide or HTP is a high (85 to 98 percent)-concentration solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder predominantly made up of water.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and High-test peroxide · See more »

Hybrid-propellant rocket

A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor which uses rocket propellants in two different phases.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Hybrid-propellant rocket · See more »

Hydrazine

Hydrazine is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula (also written), called diamidogen, archaically.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Hydrazine · See more »

Hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Hydrogen peroxide · See more »

Indian Space Research Organisation

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Indian Space Research Organisation · See more »

JATO

JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off), is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and JATO · See more »

Kerosene

Kerosene, also known as paraffin, lamp oil, and coal oil (an obsolete term), is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Kerosene · See more »

LGM-25C Titan II

The Titan II was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and space launcher developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company from the earlier Titan I missile.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and LGM-25C Titan II · See more »

Liquid hydrogen

Liquid hydrogen (LH2 or LH2) is the liquid state of the element hydrogen.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Liquid hydrogen · See more »

Liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen—abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries—is one of the physical forms of elemental oxygen.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Liquid oxygen · See more »

Liquid-propellant rocket

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Liquid-propellant rocket · See more »

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft that was operated by the United States Air Force.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird · See more »

Merlin (rocket engine family)

Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Merlin (rocket engine family) · See more »

Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor aircraft.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet · See more »

MGM-52 Lance

The MGM-52 Lance is a mobile field artillery tactical surface-to-surface missile (tactical ballistic missile) system used to provide both nuclear and conventional fire support to the United States Army.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and MGM-52 Lance · See more »

Monomethylhydrazine

Monomethylhydrazine (MMH) is a volatile hydrazine chemical with the chemical formula CH3(NH)NH2.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Monomethylhydrazine · See more »

Monopropellant

Monopropellants are propellants consisting of chemicals that release energy through exothermic chemical decomposition.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Monopropellant · See more »

Nitric acid

Nitric acid (HNO3), also known as aqua fortis (Latin for "strong water") and spirit of niter, is a highly corrosive mineral acid.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Nitric acid · See more »

Oxidizing agent

In chemistry, an oxidizing agent (oxidant, oxidizer) is a substance that has the ability to oxidize other substances — in other words to cause them to lose electrons.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Oxidizing agent · See more »

Periodic Videos

The Periodic Table of Videos (usually shortened to Periodic Videos) is a series of videos about chemical elements and the periodic table.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Periodic Videos · See more »

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable launch system developed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle · See more »

Proton (rocket family)

Proton (Russian: Протон) (formal designation: UR-500) is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Proton (rocket family) · See more »

Pyrophoricity

A pyrophoric substance (from Greek πυροφόρος, pyrophoros, "fire-bearing") ignites spontaneously in air at or below 55 °C (130 °F).

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Pyrophoricity · See more »

R-36 (missile)

The R-36 (Р-36) is a family of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and space launch vehicles (Tsyklon) designed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and R-36 (missile) · See more »

Reaction Motors

Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) was an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Reaction Motors · See more »

Red fuming nitric acid

Red fuming nitric acid (RFNA) is a storable oxidizer used as a rocket propellant.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Red fuming nitric acid · See more »

RL10

The RL10 is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on the Centaur, S-IV, and Delta Cryogenic Second Stage upper stages.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and RL10 · See more »

Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Robert H. Goddard · See more »

Rocket engine

A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellant mass for forming its high-speed propulsive jet.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Rocket engine · See more »

Rocketdyne F-1

The F-1 is a gas-generator cycle rocket engine developed in the United States by Rocketdyne in the late 1950s and used in the Saturn V rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Rocketdyne F-1 · See more »

Rocketdyne J-2

The J-2 was a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Rocketdyne J-2 · See more »

Roscosmos

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known as Roscosmos (Роскосмос), is a state corporation responsible for the space flight and cosmonautics program for the Russian Federation.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Roscosmos · See more »

RP-1

RP-1 (alternately, Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as rocket fuel.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and RP-1 · See more »

Safety valve

A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Safety valve · See more »

Saturn V

The Saturn V (pronounced "Saturn five") was an American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Saturn V · See more »

Solid-propellant rocket

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer).

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Solid-propellant rocket · See more »

Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Space Shuttle · See more »

Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System

The Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS), is a system of hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket engines used on the Space Shuttle.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System · See more »

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and SpaceX · See more »

SpaceX Dragon

Dragon is a reusable spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company based in Hawthorne, California.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and SpaceX Dragon · See more »

Spontaneous combustion

Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Spontaneous combustion · See more »

Sputnik (rocket)

The Sputnik rocket was an unmanned orbital carrier rocket designed by Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union, derived from the R-7 Semyorka ICBM.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Sputnik (rocket) · See more »

Sputnik 1

Sputnik 1 (or; "Satellite-1", or "PS-1", Простейший Спутник-1 or Prosteyshiy Sputnik-1, "Elementary Satellite 1") was the first artificial Earth satellite.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Sputnik 1 · See more »

Submarine-launched ballistic missile

A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Submarine-launched ballistic missile · See more »

T-Stoff

T-Stoff ("T-stuff") was a stabilised high test peroxide used in Germany during World War II.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and T-Stoff · See more »

Tetramethylethylenediamine

Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA or TEMED) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2NCH2CH2N(CH3)2.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Tetramethylethylenediamine · See more »

Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Toxicity · See more »

Triethylborane

No description.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Triethylborane · See more »

Turbopump

A turbopump is a propellant pump with two main components: a rotodynamic pump and a driving gas turbine, usually both mounted on the same shaft, or sometimes geared together.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Turbopump · See more »

Turpentine

Chemical structure of pinene, a major component of turpentine Turpentine (also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, wood turpentine and colloquially turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from live trees, mainly pines.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Turpentine · See more »

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and University of Nottingham · See more »

Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine

Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH; 1,1-dimethylhydrazine) is a chemical compound with the formula H2NN(CH3)2.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine · See more »

Valentin Glushko

Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Валенти́н Петро́вич Глушко́, Valentin Petrovich Glushko; Валентин Петрович Глушко, Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; born 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989), was a Soviet engineer, and designer of rocket engines during the Soviet/American Space Race.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Valentin Glushko · See more »

WAC Corporal

The WAC or WAC Corporal was the first sounding rocket developed in the United States.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and WAC Corporal · See more »

Walter HWK 509

The Walter HWK 109-509 was a German liquid-fuel bipropellant rocket engine that powered the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and Bachem Ba 349 aircraft.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and Walter HWK 509 · See more »

White fuming nitric acid

White fuming nitric acid (WFNA) is a storable liquid oxidizer used with kerosene and hydrazine rocket fuel.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and White fuming nitric acid · See more »

World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

New!!: Hypergolic propellant and World War II · See more »

Redirects here:

Hypergol, Hypergolic, Hypergolic fuel, Hypergolic-fuel.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »