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Cryogenic rocket engine

Type of rocket engine which uses liquid fuel stored at very low temperatures

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Resistojet rocket

Method of spacecraft propulsion

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Altitude compensating nozzle

Type of rocket engine exhaust

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Regenerative cooling (rocketry)

Passing cold propellant through tubes around a rocket engine to cool it

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Fusion rocket

Rocket driven by nuclear fusion power

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Monopropellant rocket

Rocket that uses a single propellant with a catalyst

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Solar thermal rocket

Theoretical spacecraft propulsion system

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Tripropellant rocket

Rocket that burns 3 propellants at once or 2 fuels with an oxidizer, sequentially

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Ullage

Unfilled space in a container, particularly with a liquid

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Staged combustion cycle

Rocket engine operation method

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Photon rocket

Type of rocket

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Retrorocket

Rocket engine providing negative thrust used to slow the motion of an aerospace vehicle

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Air-augmented rocket

Rockets that use supersonic exhaust to create additional acceleration

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Booster (rocketry)

Rocket used to augment the thrust of a larger rocket

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Liquid rocket propellant

Liquid form of rocket propellants

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Arcjet rocket

Type of spacecraft electric propulsion system

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Jet damping
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