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RL10
The RL10 is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on the Centaur, S-IV and DCSS upper stages. Built in the United States by Aerojet Rocketdyne (formerly by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne), the RL10 burns cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants, with each engine producing 64.7 to 110 kN (14,545–24,729 lbf) of thrust in vacuum depending on the version in use. The RL10 was the first liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be built in the United States, and development of the engine by Marshall Space Flight Center and Pratt & Whitney began in the 1950s, with the first flight occurring in 1961. Several versions of the engine have been flown, with two, the RL10A-4-2 and the RL10B-2, still being produced and flown on the Atlas V and Delta IV.
The engine produces a specific impulse (Isp) of 373 to 470 s (3.66–4.61 km/s) in a vacuum and has a mass ranging from 131 to 317 kg (289–699 lb) (depending on version). Six RL10A-3 engines were used in the S-IV second stage of the Saturn I rocket, one or two RL10 engines are used in the Centaur upper stages of Atlas and Titan rockets and one RL10B-2 is used in the upper stage of Delta IV rockets.
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The Most Efficient Rocket Engine - The RL10 Expander Cycle Engine
The new(ish) camera on the Delta IV showed the deployment of the RL-10B Nozzle extension so I thought I'd talk about this workhorse upper stage engine. Lots more info on the evolution can be found on this page: http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets/Specials/P&W_RL10_engine/
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RL-10 Rocket Engine
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft film on the development of the RL-10 rocket engine--the first commercial engine to be fueled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The piece includes footage of the assembly, analysis, and test stand firing of the engine. The film was created for NASA's Lewis Research Center. Transcript: The RL-10 rocket engine, power plant for Centaur and Saturn, is the result of years of development The highest performance engine built in the free world uses safe, reliable, and dependable hydrogen. To maintain the high degree of reliability of the RL-10, vital parts are assembled under stringent laboratory conditions. Following a typical engine through its paces, the thrust chamber tubes are installed. After an assembly is placed over a mandrill, the manifold and fan can be ...
published: 25 Jun 2019 -
500 Production RL10 Engines
AEHF-6 Launch Broadcast video about the 500th Flight of the RL10 upperstage rocket engine
published: 26 Mar 2020 -
What Is RL10?
Learn more about the RL10 upper-stage rocket engine, which has helped place hundreds of satellites into orbit and sent spacecraft to explore every planet in our solar system.
published: 14 Aug 2020 -
BTS - RL10 Aluminum Railing Installation . BTS - RL10 Aluminyum Korkuluk Küpeşte
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Kako montirati aluminijumsku ogradu Lyctum RL10 - Lyctum TV
Više informacija o aluminijusmkim ogradama dostupno je na https://lyctum.com/aluminijumske-ograde-i-gelenderi/ dok više informacija o samom sistemu RL10 možete pronaći na https://staklene-ograde.com/proizvodi/aluminijumske-staklene-ograde/rl10/ #Lyctum #AluminijumskeOgrade #BTS #StakleneOgrade
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Expander Cycle Rocket Engines - Using Waste Heat To Drive Your Rocket
Another installment of 'Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach' - explaining the expander cycle rocket engines in more detail. Expander cycles use the waste heat from the combustion chamber and nozzles to boil liquid hydrogen and power the turbines. The main advantages are cooler, less chemically active turbine environments, but if used in a closed cycle design the total thrust is limited. Most of this material is at a pretty high level, I'm not a rocket scientist, I only play one on the internet. Most of the flow schematics are taken from this excellent article by William Green https://blogs.nasa.gov/J2X/2014/03/24/inside-the-leo-doghouse-the-art-of-expander-cycle-engines/ I also took some o https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19850010710.pdf Also, Emre Kelly's st...
published: 23 Apr 2019 -
Workhorse RL-10 Engine to Power SLS Artemis Upper Stage
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently delivered four RL10 upper stage engines to NASA’s Stennis Space Center that will help power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it carries astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to deep space. These missions are part of NASA’s Artemis program, which will land the first woman and next man on the Moon. The SLS Block 1 rocket will use one RL10B-2 engine, the same engine currently used by the Delta IV rocket, as a part of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). As the rocket evolves to a more powerful Block 1B configuration, an exploration upper stage (EUS) will be added. The EUS will use four RL10C-3 engines, and the upgraded rocket will send astronauts tens of thousands of miles beyond the moon to explore deep-space. Aerojet Rocketdyne is under con...
published: 03 Feb 2020 -
RL-10 Rocket Engine Arrival
Believed to be the only RL-10 rocket engine in private hands, this workhorse has taken satellites to every planet in our solar system and is still the highest ISP engine in operation today. Photos & background details: https://flic.kr/p/8C89Rh
published: 25 Dec 2019
The Most Efficient Rocket Engine - The RL10 Expander Cycle Engine
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The new(ish) camera on the Delta IV showed the deployment of the RL-10B Nozzle extension so I thought I'd talk about this workhorse upper stage engine.
Lots more info on the evolution can be found on this page:
http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets/Specials/P&W_RL10_engine/
https://wn.com/The_Most_Efficient_Rocket_Engine_The_Rl10_Expander_Cycle_Engine
RL-10 Rocket Engine
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Pratt & Whitney Aircraft film on the development of the RL-10 rocket engine--the first commercial engine to be fueled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The piece includes footage of the assembly, analysis, and test stand firing of the engine. The film was created for NASA's Lewis Research Center.
Transcript:
The RL-10 rocket engine, power plant for Centaur and Saturn, is the result of years of development The highest performance engine built in the free world uses safe, reliable, and dependable hydrogen. To maintain the high degree of reliability of the RL-10, vital parts are assembled under stringent laboratory conditions. Following a typical engine through its paces, the thrust chamber tubes are installed. After an assembly is placed over a mandrill, the manifold and fan can be attached. Silver wire is laid in for furnace brazing. Placed in a re-torch, the chamber is ready for a burning. Once brazed, the chamber undergoes testing to assure trouble-free operation. Liquid nitrogen is forced through the chamber to perform thermal shock tests. Pressurized with gaseous nitrogen, the chamber is checked for leaks. The inspected subassembly is dried out in a special oven. Final chamber assembly is completed with the installation of the injectors. A special jig is lowered to accurately align the injectors. Then the chamber goes to final machining prior to the assembly of the complete engine. On the assembly floor, all parts come together, fuel lines, valves, turbo pumps are brought from clean rooms and assembled, installed, and inspected. Multiple inspections of each component and subassembly assures maximum reliability.
Ready for action, the completed engine must undergo the test of firing. The Rl-10 is made ready for transport to the test site. The operating principle of the RL-10 can best be shown by this simple diagram. Hydrogen at 37 Rankine, -423 degrees Fahrenheit, enters through the inlet shutoff valve, passes through the first stage pump into the second stage pump, where it is discharged at 1000 pounds per square inch. Then it passes through the cooling jacket manifold, through half of the tubes, through the turnaround manifold, back through the long tubes, to the exit manifold, and through venture to the turbine. At this point, the hydrogen is now gas at 850 pounds per square inch and 350 degrees Rankine, -110 degrees Fahrenheit. And provides the power to drive the hydrogen and oxygen pumps. It then goes to the main shutoff valve, into the injector, and to the combustion chamber. Drawn in through the single-stage oxygen pump, oxygen flows the inlet valve, directly to the mixture-ratio control valve, into the injector to combine with the hydrogen in the chamber.
The engine itself is as simple as the diagram. To demonstrate, the hydrogen enters at this point, flows through the first-stage pump, into the second-stage pump, passes through the cooling jacket manifold, down through half the tubes, to the turnaround manifold, up the long tubes, collected at the exit manifold, through the venture, into the turbine. There it provides the power to drive the hydrogen and oxygen pumps. Then around the large line, through the main fuel shutoff valve, into the injector, and then to the combustion chamber. On the oxygen side, oxygen flows through the inlet valve directly to a single-stage pump, through the mixture ratio control valve, into the injector.
Arriving at one of the vertical test stands, the RL-10 is installed and made ready for test firing. [Countdown in background]. Space firing conditions will be simulated. The steam injector system lowers the pressure to the near-vacuum of space. [Countdown continues]. On completion of this test firing, the engine will be returned to the manufacturing area for complete disassembly, inspection, and reassembly. Years of experience, research, and development have gone into the design and manufacture of the Pratt & Whitney RL-10 rocket engine. The RL-10 has also undergone space condition testing at the NASA Lewis Research Center, where special viewing ports permit continual visual check of space condition firing. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft’s around-the-clock development program is helping accelerate the United States’ space effort.
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500 Production RL10 Engines
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AEHF-6 Launch Broadcast video about the 500th Flight of the RL10 upperstage rocket engine
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What Is RL10?
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Learn more about the RL10 upper-stage rocket engine, which has helped place hundreds of satellites into orbit and sent spacecraft to explore every planet in our solar system.
https://wn.com/What_Is_Rl10
BTS - RL10 Aluminum Railing Installation . BTS - RL10 Aluminyum Korkuluk Küpeşte
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ISTANBUL /TURKEY
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Kako montirati aluminijumsku ogradu Lyctum RL10 - Lyctum TV
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Više informacija o aluminijusmkim ogradama dostupno je na https://lyctum.com/aluminijumske-ograde-i-gelenderi/ dok više informacija o samom sistemu RL10 možete pronaći na https://staklene-ograde.com/proizvodi/aluminijumske-staklene-ograde/rl10/
#Lyctum #AluminijumskeOgrade #BTS #StakleneOgrade
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Expander Cycle Rocket Engines - Using Waste Heat To Drive Your Rocket
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Another installment of 'Things Kerbal Space Program Doesn't Teach' - explaining the expander cycle rocket engines in more detail. Expander cycles use the waste heat from the combustion chamber and nozzles to boil liquid hydrogen and power the turbines. The main advantages are cooler, less chemically active turbine environments, but if used in a closed cycle design the total thrust is limited.
Most of this material is at a pretty high level, I'm not a rocket scientist, I only play one on the internet.
Most of the flow schematics are taken from this excellent article by William Green
https://blogs.nasa.gov/J2X/2014/03/24/inside-the-leo-doghouse-the-art-of-expander-cycle-engines/
I also took some o
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19850010710.pdf
Also, Emre Kelly's story on the Dragon capsule RUD
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2019/04/20/smoke-seen-miles-spacex-crew-dragon-suffers-anomaly-cape-canaveral/3531086002/
John Kraus's Delta IV photo is available from his site:
https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/
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Workhorse RL-10 Engine to Power SLS Artemis Upper Stage
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Aerojet Rocketdyne recently delivered four RL10 upper stage engines to NASA’s Stennis Space Center that will help power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it carries astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to deep space. These missions are part of NASA’s Artemis program, which will land the first woman and next man on the Moon.
The SLS Block 1 rocket will use one RL10B-2 engine, the same engine currently used by the Delta IV rocket, as a part of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). As the rocket evolves to a more powerful Block 1B configuration, an exploration upper stage (EUS) will be added. The EUS will use four RL10C-3 engines, and the upgraded rocket will send astronauts tens of thousands of miles beyond the moon to explore deep-space.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is under contract to deliver 10 RL10 engines to NASA to support the Artemis program. One of the four engines that were recently delivered will be used to support the Artemis II mission that will use the ICPS upper stage, while the other three are slated to support future Artemis missions aboard the EUS. Delivery of the remaining six engines will be completed by 2021.
More info - https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/proven-engine-packs-big-in-space-punch-for-nasa-s-sls-rocket.html
Credits: Aerojet Rocketdyne / NASA
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RL-10 Rocket Engine Arrival
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Believed to be the only RL-10 rocket engine in private hands, this workhorse has taken satellites to every planet in our solar system and is still the highest ISP engine in operation today. Photos & background details: https://flic.kr/p/8C89Rh
https://wn.com/Rl_10_Rocket_Engine_Arrival
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The Most Efficient Rocket Engine - The RL10 Expander Cycle Engine
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The new(ish) camera on the Delta IV showed the deployment of the RL-10B Nozzle extension so I thought I'd talk about this workhorse upper stage engine.
Lots more info on the evolution can be found on this page:
http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets/Specials/P&W_RL10_engine/
RL10
The RL10 is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on the Centaur, S-IV and DCSS upper stages. Built in the United States by Aerojet Rocketdyne (formerly by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne), the RL10 burns cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants, with each engine producing 64.7 to 110 kN (14,545–24,729 lbf) of thrust in vacuum depending on the version in use. The RL10 was the first liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be built in the United States, and development of the engine by Marshall Space Flight Center and Pratt & Whitney began in the 1950s, with the first flight occurring in 1961. Several versions of the engine have been flown, with two, the RL10A-4-2 and the RL10B-2, still being produced and flown on the Atlas V and Delta IV.
The engine produces a specific impulse (Isp) of 373 to 470 s (3.66–4.61 km/s) in a vacuum and has a mass ranging from 131 to 317 kg (289–699 lb) (depending on version). Six RL10A-3 engines were used in the S-IV second stage of the Saturn I rocket, one or two RL10 engines are used in the Centaur upper stages of Atlas and Titan rockets and one RL10B-2 is used in the upper stage of Delta IV rockets.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/RL10