Liquid rocket engines | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-02

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00:01:23 1 History
00:04:39 2 Types
00:05:48 3 Principle of operation
00:11:18 4 Propellants
00:11:37 4.1 Cryogenic
00:13:12 4.2 Semi-cryogenic
00:14:23 4.3 Hypergolic
00:17:51 5 Injectors
00:18:29 5.1 Types of injectors
00:21:07 5.2 Combustion stability
00:23:04 6 Engine cycles
00:26:47 6.1 Engine cycle tradeoffs
00:27:08 7 Cooling
00:27:50 8 Ignition
00:30:35 9 See also



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A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably high density allows the volume of the propellant tanks to be relatively low, and it is possible to use lightweight centrifugal turbopumps to pump the propellant from the tanks into the combustion chamber, which means that the propellants can be kept under low pressure. This permits the use of low-mass propellant tanks, resulting in a high mass ratio for the rocket.
An inert gas stored in a tank at a high pressure is sometimes used instead of pumps in simpler small engines to force the propellants into the combustion chamber. These engines may have a lower mass ratio, but are usually more reliable, and are therefore used widely in satellites for orbit maintenance. Liquid rockets can be monopropellant rockets using a single type of propellant, bipropellant rockets using two types of propellant, or more exotic tripropellant rockets using three types of propellant.
Some designs are throttleable for variable thrust operation and some may be restarted after a previous in-space shutdown.  Liquid propellants are also used in hybrid rockets, in which a liquid oxidizer is generally combined with a solid fuel.