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    Rocket Engine Uses Stored: Types

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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants that undergo combustion, producing hot gas which is ejected from the rocket at high speed, generating thrust according to Newton's third law. Most rocket engines combust chemical propellants to power the engine, but some use other methods like cold gas or nuclear thermal reactions. Rocket engines carry their own oxidizer and can operate in a vacuum, allowing them to propel spacecraft and missiles. While lightweight and providing high thrust, rocket engines are less fuel efficient than other jet engines.

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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants that undergo combustion, producing hot gas which is ejected from the rocket at high speed, generating thrust according to Newton's third law. Most rocket engines combust chemical propellants to power the engine, but some use other methods like cold gas or nuclear thermal reactions. Rocket engines carry their own oxidizer and can operate in a vacuum, allowing them to propel spacecraft and missiles. While lightweight and providing high thrust, rocket engines are less fuel efficient than other jet engines.

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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants that undergo combustion, producing hot gas which is ejected from the rocket at high speed, generating thrust according to Newton's third law. Most rocket engines combust chemical propellants to power the engine, but some use other methods like cold gas or nuclear thermal reactions. Rocket engines carry their own oxidizer and can operate in a vacuum, allowing them to propel spacecraft and missiles. While lightweight and providing high thrust, rocket engines are less fuel efficient than other jet engines.

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    Rocket Engine Uses Stored: Types

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    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants that undergo combustion, producing hot gas which is ejected from the rocket at high speed, generating thrust according to Newton's third law. Most rocket engines combust chemical propellants to power the engine, but some use other methods like cold gas or nuclear thermal reactions. Rocket engines carry their own oxidizer and can operate in a vacuum, allowing them to propel spacecraft and missiles. While lightweight and providing high thrust, rocket engines are less fuel efficient than other jet engines.

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    rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as reaction mass for forming a high-speed

    propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket engines are reaction engines,
    producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law. Most rocket engines use
    the combustion of reactive chemicals to supply the necessary energy, but non-combusting
    forms such as cold gas thrusters and nuclear thermal rockets also exist. Vehicles propelled
    by rocket engines are commonly called rockets. Rocket vehicles carry their own oxidizer,
    unlike most combustion engines, so rocket engines can be used in a vacuum to
    propel spacecraft and ballistic missiles.[citation needed]
    Compared to other types of jet engines, rocket engines are the lightest and have the highest
    thrust, but are the least propellant-efficient (they have the lowest specific impulse). The
    ideal exhaust is hydrogen, the lightest of all elements, but chemical rockets produce a mix
    of heavier species, reducing the exhaust velocity.[citation needed]
    Rocket engines become more efficient at high speeds, due to the Oberth effect.[1]

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    Here, "rocket" is used as an abbreviation for "rocket engine".

    Thermal rockets use an inert propellant, heated by electricity (electrothermal propulsion)


    or a nuclear reactor (nuclear thermal rocket).
    Chemical rockets are powered by exothermic reduction-oxidation chemical reactions of
    the propellant:
     Solid-fuel rockets (or solid-propellant rockets or motors) are chemical rockets which use
    propellant in a solid phase.
     Liquid-propellant rockets use one or more propellants in a liquid state fed from tanks.
     Hybrid rockets use a solid propellant in the combustion chamber, to which a second liquid or
    gas oxidizer or propellant is added to permit combustion.
     Monopropellant rockets use a single propellant decomposed by a catalyst. The most common
    monopropellants are hydrazine and hydrogen peroxide.

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