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SpaceX Draco

The SpaceX Draco is a hypergolic liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX for use in their space capsules. ^[1]

Table of Contents

34 relations: Ames Research Center, Dinitrogen tetroxide, Dragon 2 DragonFly, Flight test, Fuel, Hypergolic propellant, International Space Station, Launch escape system, Liquid-propellant rocket, Monomethylhydrazine, NASA, Newton (unit), Oxidizing agent, Pound (force), Propellant, R-4D, Reaction control system, Rocket engine, Rocket propellant, Space capsule, Spacecraft attitude control, Spacecraft propulsion, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX Dragon 2, SpaceX Kestrel, SpaceX Merlin, SpaceX Raptor, SpaceX Red Dragon, SuperDraco, Test article (aerospace), Thrust, United States, VTVL.
Rocket engines of the United States
Rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle
SpaceX rocket engines

Ames Research Center

The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.

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Dinitrogen tetroxide

Dinitrogen tetroxide, commonly referred to as nitrogen tetroxide (NTO), and occasionally (usually among ex-USSR/Russian rocket engineers) as amyl, is the chemical compound N2O4.

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Dragon 2 DragonFly

The Dragon 2 DragonFly (Dragon C201) was a prototype suborbital rocket-powered test vehicle for a propulsively-landed version of the SpaceX Dragon 2.

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Flight test

Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops specialist equipment required for testing behaviour and systems of aircraft or testing the atmospheric phase of launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft.

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Fuel

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

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Hypergolic propellant

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

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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Launch escape system

A launch escape system (LES) or launch abort system (LAS) is a crew-safety system connected to a space capsule.

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Liquid-propellant rocket

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants.

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Monomethylhydrazine

Monomethylhydrazine (MMH) is a highly toxic, volatile hydrazine derivative with the chemical formula.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Newton (unit)

The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Oxidizing agent

An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a (called the,, or). In other words, an oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance.

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Pound (force)

The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system.

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Propellant

A propellant (or propellent) is a mass that is expelled or expanded in such a way as to create a thrust or another motive force in accordance with Newton's third law of motion, and "propel" a vehicle, projectile, or fluid payload.

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R-4D

The R-4D is a small hypergolic rocket engine, originally designed by Marquardt Corporation for use as a reaction control system thruster on vehicles of the Apollo crewed Moon landing program. SpaceX Draco and r-4D are rocket engines using hypergolic propellant and rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle.

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Reaction control system

A reaction control system (RCS) is a spacecraft system that uses thrusters to provide attitude control and translation.

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Rocket engine

A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas.

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Rocket propellant

Rocket propellant is the reaction mass of a rocket.

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Space capsule

A space capsule is a spacecraft designed to transport cargo, scientific experiments, and/or astronauts to and from space.

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Spacecraft attitude control

Spacecraft attitude control is the process of controlling the orientation of a spacecraft (vehicle or satellite) with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity such as the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.

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Spacecraft propulsion

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites.

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

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SpaceX Dragon

Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American private space transportation company SpaceX.

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SpaceX Dragon 2

Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by American space company SpaceX, for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions.

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SpaceX Kestrel

The SpaceX Kestrel was an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. SpaceX Draco and SpaceX Kestrel are rocket engines of the United States, rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle and spaceX rocket engines.

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SpaceX Merlin

Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles. SpaceX Draco and SpaceX Merlin are rocket engines of the United States and spaceX rocket engines.

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SpaceX Raptor

Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. SpaceX Draco and SpaceX Raptor are rocket engines of the United States and spaceX rocket engines.

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SpaceX Red Dragon

The SpaceX Red Dragon was a 2011–2017 concept for using an uncrewed modified SpaceX Dragon 2 for low-cost Mars lander missions to be launched using Falcon Heavy rockets.

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SuperDraco

SuperDraco is a hypergolic propellant rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. SpaceX Draco and SuperDraco are rocket engines of the United States, rocket engines using hypergolic propellant, rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle and spaceX rocket engines.

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Test article (aerospace)

A test article or pathfinder is a version of a spacecraft or related vehicle or equipment, built as a platform to perform testing on particular portions of a spaceflight regime.

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Thrust

Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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VTVL

Vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) is a form of takeoff and landing for rockets.

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See also

Rocket engines of the United States

Rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle

SpaceX rocket engines

References

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

Also known as Draco (rocket engine family), Draco (rocket engine), Draco thruster, SpaceX SuperDraco.

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