Tripropellant rocket

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A tripropellant rocket is a rocket that uses threeengines, but this would mean the spacecraft
propellants, as opposed to the more commonwould be carrying one or the other set "turned
bipropellant rocket or monopropellant rocketoff" for most of the flight. With light enough
designs, which use two or one fuels, respectively.engines this might be reasonable, but an SSTO
Tripropellant rockets appear to offer fairlydesign requires a very high mass fraction and so
impressive gains for single stage to orbit designs,has razor-thin margins for extra weight.
although to date no tripropellant rocket design hasAnd thus the tripropellant engine. The engine is
been developed to the point of testing that wouldbasically two engines in one, with a common
prove the concept.engine core with the engine bell, combustion
There are two principally different kinds ofchamber and oxidizer pump, but two fuel pumps
tripropellant rockets. One is a rocket engine whichand feed lines. The engine is somewhat heavier
mixes three separate streams of propellants. Forand more complex than a single-fuel engine, but
example, a mixture of lithium, hydrogen, andthe complexity is generally a little less than 50%
fluorine produced a specific impulse of 546more than a single engine, hence less than two
seconds; the highest ever of any chemical rocketengines would be. Of course there are numerous
motor. The other kind of tripropellant rocket ispractical reasons why this would be more
one that uses one oxidizer but two fuels,complex.
switching between the two in mid-flight. In thisAt liftoff the engine typically burns both fuels,
way the motor can combine the highgradually changing the mixture over altitude in
thrust-to-mass of a dense fuel like kerosene earlyorder to keep the exhaust plume "tuned" (a
in flight with the high specific impulse of a lighterstrategy similar in concept to the plug nozzle but
fuel like liquid hydrogen (LH2) later in flight. Theusing a normal bell), eventually switching entirely to
result is a single engine providing some of theLH2 once the kerosene is burned off. At that
benefits of staging.point the engine is largely a straight LH2/LOX
Although liquid hydrogen delivers the largestengine, with an extra fuel pump hanging onto it.
specific impulse of the plausible rocket fuels, it alsoThe concept was first explored in the US by
requires huge structures to hold it due to its lowRobert Salkeld, who published the first study on
density. These structures can weigh a lot,the concept in Mixed-Mode Propulsion for the
offsetting the light weight of the fuel itself toSpace Shuttle, Astronautics & Aeronautics
some degree, and also result in higher drag whileAugust 1971. He studied a number of designs
in the atmosphere. While kerosene has lowerusing such engines, both ground based and a
specific impulse, its higher density results in smallernumber that were air-launched from large jet
structures, which implies less loss to atmosphericaircraft. He concluded that tripropellant engines
drag. In addition, kerosene based engines generallywould produce gains of over 100% in payload
provide higher thrust, which is important forfraction, reductions of over 65% in propellant
takeoff, reducing gravity drag. So in generalvolume and better than 20% in dry weight. A
terms there is a "sweet spot" in altitude wheresecond design series studied the replacement of
one type of fuel becomes more practical than thethe Shuttles SRBs with tripropellant based
other.boosters, in which case the engine almost halved
Traditional rocket designs use this sweet spot tothe overall weight of the designs. His last full study
their advantage via staging. For instance thewas on the Orbital Rocket Airplane which used
Saturn Vs used a lower stage powered by RP-1both tripropellant and (in some versions) a plug
(kerosene) and upper stages powered by LH2.nozzle, resulting in a spaceship only slightly larger
Some of the early Space Shuttle design effortsthan a Lockheed SR-71, able to operate from
used similar designs, with one stage usingtraditional runways.
kerosene into the upper atmosphere, where anAlthough first invented in the US[citation needed],
LH2 powered upper stage would light and go onthe only tripropellant engines built were in Russia.
from there. The existing Shuttle design isKosberg and Glushko developed...(and so on) To
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