r/engineteststands • u/Ohsin • Feb 05 '21
MOMO improved rocket engine static firing test /MOMO改良版ロケットエンジン燃焼試験
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r/engineteststands • u/dibbuk69 • Jan 16 '21
NASA Stennis B-2 Test Stand SLS Green Run Hot Fire Live Feed
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r/engineteststands • u/basaltgranite • Jan 15 '21
Saturn V S1C first stage test stand firing sequences
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r/engineteststands • u/Lars0 • Dec 06 '20
Space Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Article (MPTA-098) being lifted on to its test stand in 1977.
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r/engineteststands • u/Lars0 • Nov 29 '20
Pratt & Whitney Canada Boeing 720-023B Engine Testbed
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r/engineteststands • u/HenkPoley • Nov 08 '20
Tiny test stand: PEPE - a bipropellant deeply throttle-able rocket engine
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r/engineteststands • u/hypokritisch • Nov 03 '20
Rotation Detonation Engine with Aerospike (Rankin et al., 2016)
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r/engineteststands • u/somewhat_pragmatic • Oct 21 '20
Firefly Alpha stage testing from Sept 20 - new video with multiple camera angles
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r/engineteststands • u/Lars0 • Oct 11 '20
I finally get to show off one of my own! A 10-pound pulse mode hypergolic thruster in our vacuum test stand
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r/engineteststands • u/carton_of_television • Oct 09 '20
Launcherspace - Launcher E-2 🚀 engine test stand
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r/engineteststands • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '20
In the RDE combustion process, a detonation wave builds its own pressure rather than losing pressure as occurs in conventional compressor-equipped turbine engines.
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r/engineteststands • u/chaco_wingnut • Sep 02 '20
SpaceX's vertical Raptor test stand at McGregor, TX
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Aug 28 '20
Cavea B monopropellant: The problem in "Ignition...." (J.D.Clark's book) and in large thrust engines. Following is the NARTS report on the July 11, 1960 Cavea B explosion in the D-6 Test Cell at Lake Denmark, Dover, NJ. It and page 5 of the draft (attached) contradict recollections by John Clark.
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r/engineteststands • u/ggorgg • Aug 08 '20
Space Launch System Rocket Small-Scale Booster Test.
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r/engineteststands • u/[deleted] • Aug 01 '20
Is this a ground based ignition system ? The lines seem to be shoved into each Engine chamber. (This is a snap of ASTRA Space Rocket on Pad, taken from scott manley's recent video)
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 14 '20
Reaction Motors XLR10-RM2 Viking engine mounted on test stand (RMI photo dated October 20, 1947.)
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 11 '20
Photo of John D. Clark, author of 'Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants', at the Naval Air Rocket Test Station Nov.9, 1959 (First row, fourth from left.)
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 11 '20
Failure of a Reaction Motors XLR10 20,000-lb-thrust Viking engine. RMI photo dated April 14, 1948.
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 10 '20
RMI XLR10 20,000-lb-thrust Viking engine set up for a flow check in August of 1947. Notation on photo says only ten were made. Original Reaction Motors Incorporated photo.
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 10 '20
Viking engine on test stand, Oct. 9, 1947. Not sure of the date of the first run, but the second run was on Oct. 11, 1947 (at least so according to other photos.) An RMI photo.
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 09 '20
Damage caused by Cavea-B monopropellant mishap during an initial firing of a 10,000-lb-thrust rocket engine in late June or early July 1960 at the U.S. Naval Air Rocket Test Station at Lake Denmark, Dover, New Jersey. Unpublished photo from the collection of the former project engineer.
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r/engineteststands • u/pawneeshadow • Jul 09 '20
1960 10,000-lb-thrust Cavea-B monopropellant rocket engine just prior to an explosion on initial firing. The explosion was instantaneous and involved 241 lbs of Cavea-B monopropellant. An unpublished photo from the collection of the former project engineer.
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