Liquid Propellants in Various Flight Vehicles, Table
- Liquid Propellants in Various Flight Vehicles, Table
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rocket oxidizer fuel
German V-2 liquid oxygen ethyl alcohol-water (75%-25%)
Atlas ICBM liquid oxygen RP-1 (
kerosene)
Delta
First stage liquid oxygen RP-1 (
kerosene)
Second stage nitrogen tetroxide hydrazine-UDMH* (50%-50%)
Saturn
First stage liquid oxygen RP-1 (
kerosene)
Second stage liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen
Third stage liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen
Apollo Lunar Module nitrogen tetroxide hydrazine-UDMH* (50%-50%)
Space Shuttle
Main engines liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen
Orbital Maneuvering System nitrogen tetroxide monomethyl hydrazine
Ariane 4, first stage nitrogen tetroxide UDMH*
Energia, first stage
Core liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen
Cluster liquid oxygen kerosene
*Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine.
* * *
Universalium.
2010.
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