[AR] Re: Rocket thrust change with altitude, RPA

  • From: "John Dom" <johndom@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:59:01 +0100

RL10 cooling tubes in nozzle wall (London Science Museum, 2016 picture).

John

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Subject: [AR] Re: Rocket thrust change with altitude, RPA

Yes, but in contrast with the mentioned engine with very long nozzle, the steam 
in CECE exhaust was not condensed "thermodynamically" due to expansion in the 
super-high-area-ratio nozzle, but just cooled by the cold nozzle walls.


On 10/30/2016 06:47 AM, Norman Yarvin wrote:

showing an RL10 with icicles forming on its rim as it was test- 
fired... and that wasn't even the version of the RL10 with the long 
carbon fiber nozzle extension!

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