1.

INTRODUCTION

Cryogenics originated from two Greek words kyros which means cold or freezing and
genes which means born or produced. Cryogenics is the study of very low temperatures or the
production of the same. Liquefied gases like liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen are used in many
cryogenic applications. Liquid nitrogen is the most commonly used element in cryogenics and is
legally purchasable around the world. Liquid helium is also commonly used and allows for the
lowest temperatures to be reached. These gases can be stored on large tanks called Dewar tanks,
named after James Dewar, who first liquefied hydrogen, or in giant tanks used for commercial
applications.

The field of cryogenics advanced when during world war two, when metals were frozen
to low temperatures showed more wear resistance. In 1966, a company was formed, called Cyro-
Tech, which experimented with the possibility of using cryogenic tempering instead of Heat
Treating, for increasing the life of metal tools. The theory was based on the existing theory of
heat treating, which was lowering the temperatures to room temperatures from high temperatures
and supposing that further descent would allow more strength for further strength increase.
Unfortunately for the newly-born industry the results were unstable as the components
sometimes experienced thermal shock when cooled too fast. Luckily with the use of applied
research and the with the arrival of the modern computer this field has improved significantly,
creating more stable results.

Another use of cryogenics is cryogenic fuels. Cryogenic fuels, mainly oxygen and
nitrogen have been used as rocket fuels. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set
to flight-test the indigenously developed cryogenic engine by early 2006, after the engine passed
a 1000 second endurance test in 2003. It will form the final stage of the GSLV for putting it into
orbit 36,000 km from earth.

Cryogenic Engines are rocket motors designed for liquid fuels that have to be held at very
low "cryogenic" temperatures to be liquid - they would otherwise be gas at normal temperatures.
The engine components are also cooled so the fuel doesn't boil to a gas in the lines that feed the
engine. The thrust comes from the rapid expansion from liquid to gas with the gas emerging from
the motor at very high speed. The energy needed to heat the fuels comes from burning them,
once they are gasses. Cryogenic engines are the highest performing rocket motors. One
disadvantage is that the fuel tanks tend to be bulky and require heavy insulation to store the
propellant. Their high fuel efficiency, however, outweighs this disadvantage. The Space Shuttle's
main engines used for liftoff are cryogenic engines. The Shuttle's smaller thrusters for orbital
maneuvering use non-cryogenic hypergolic fuels, which are compact and are stored at warm
temperatures. Currently, only the United States, Russia, China, France, Japan and India have
mastered cryogenic rocket technology.

All the current Rockets run on Liquid-propellant rockets. The first operational cryogenic
rocket engine was the 1961 NASA design the RL-10 LOX LH2 rocket engine, which was used in
the Saturn 1 rocket employed in the early stages of the Apollo moon landing program.
The major components of a cryogenic rocket engine are:
the thrust chamber or combustion chamber
Pyrotechnic Igniter
Fuel Injector
Fuel Turbo-Pumps
Gas Turbine
Cryo Valves
Regulators
The Fuel Tanks
Rocket Engine
Nozzle

Among them, the combustion chamber & the nozzle are the main components of the
rocket engine.
 2. HISTORY

The only known claim to liquid propellant rocket engine experiments in the nineteenth
century was made by a Peruvian scientist named Pedro Paulet. However, he did not immediately
publish his work. In 1927 he wrote a letter to a newspaper in Lima, claiming he had
experimented with a liquid rocket engine while he was a student in Paris three decades earlier.
Historians of early rocketry experiments, among them Max Valier and Willy Ley, have given
differing amounts of credence to Paulet's report. Paulet described laboratory tests of liquid rocket
engines, but did not claim to have flown a liquid rocket.

The first flight of a vehicle powered by a liquid-rocket took place on March 16, 1926 at
Auburn, Massachusetts, when American professor Robert H. Goddard launched a rocket which
used liquid oxygen and gasoline as propellants. The rocket, which was dubbed "Nell", rose just
41 feet during a 2.5-second flight that ended in a cabbage field, but it was an important
demonstration that liquid rockets were possible.
 3. SPACE PROPULSION SYSTEM

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites.
There are many different methods. Each method has drawbacks and advantages, and spacecraft
propulsion is an active area of research. However, most spacecraft today are propelled by forcing
a gas from the back/rear of the vehicle at very high speed through a supersonic de Laval nozzle.
This sort of engine is called a rocket engine.

Classification of Space Propulsion System

All current spacecraft use chemical rockets (bipropellant or solid-fuel) for launch, though
some have used air-breathing engines on their first stage. Most satellites have simple reliable
chemical thrusters. Soviet bloc satellites have used electric propulsion for decades, and newer
Western geo-orbiting spacecraft are starting to use them for north-south station keeping.
Interplanetary vehicles mostly use chemical rockets as well, although a few have used ion
thrusters to great success.
 4. ROCKET ENGINE POWER CYCLES

4.1. Gas pressure feed system

A simple pressurized feed system is shown schematically below. It consists of a high-

pressure gas tank, a gas starting valve, a pressure regulator, propellant tanks, propellant valves,
and feed lines. Additional components, such as filling and draining provisions, check valves,
filters, flexible elastic bladders for separating the liquid from the pressurizing gas, and pressure
sensors or gauges, are also often incorporated. After all tanks are filled, the high-pressure gas
valve is remotely actuated and admits gas through the pressure regulator at a constant pressure to
the propellant tanks. The check valves prevent mixing of the oxidizer with the fuel when the unit
is not in an right position.

The propellants are fed to the thrust chamber by opening valves. When the propellants are
completely consumed, the pressurizing gas can also scavenge and clean lines and valves of much
of the liquid propellant residue. The variations in this system, such as the combination of several
valves into one or the elimination and addition of certain components, depend to a large extent
on the application. If a unit is to be used over and over, such as space-maneuver rocket, it will
include several additional features such as, possibly, a thrust-regulating device and a tank level
gauge.

4.2. Gas-Generator Cycle

The gas-generator cycle taps off a small amount of fuel and oxidizer from the main flow
to feed a burner called a gas generator. The hot gas from this generator passes through a turbine
to generate power for the pumps that send propellants to the combustion chamber. The hot gas is
then either dumped overboard or sent into the main nozzle downstream. Increasing the flow of
propellants into the gas generator increases the speed of the turbine, which increases the flow of
propellants into the main combustion chamber (and hence, the amount of thrust produced). The
gas generator must burn propellants at a less-than-optimal mixture ratio to keep the temperature
low for the turbine blades. Thus, the cycle is appropriate for moderate power requirements but
not high-power systems, which would have to divert a large portion of the main flow to the less
efficient gas-generator flow.

4.3. Staged Combustion Cycle

In a staged combustion cycle, the propellants are burned in stages. Like the gas-generator
cycle, this cycle also has a burner, called a preburner, to generate gas for a turbine. The pre-
burner taps off and burn a small amount of one propellant and a large amount of the other,
producing an oxidizer-rich or fuel-rich hot gas mixture that is mostly unburned vaporized
propellant. This hot gas is then passed through the turbine, injected into the main chamber, and
burned again with the remaining propellants. The advantage over the gas-generator cycle is that
all of the propellants are burned at the optimal mixture ratio in the main chamber and no flow is
dumped overboard. The staged combustion cycle is often used for high-power applications. The
higher the chamber pressure, the smaller and lighter the engine can be to produce the same
thrust. Development cost for this cycle is higher because the high pressures complicate the
development process.
 5. COMBUSTION IN THRUST CHAMBER

The thrust chamber is the key subassembly of a rocket engine. Here the liquid propellants
are metered, injected, atomized, vaporized, mixed, and burned to form hot reaction gas products,
which in turn are accelerated and ejected at high velocity. A rocket thrust chamber assembly has
an injector, a combustion chamber, a supersonic nozzle, and mounting provisions. All have to
withstand the extreme heat of combustion and the various forces, including the transmission of
the thrust force to the vehicle. There also is an ignition system if non-spontaneously ignitable
propellants are used.
 6. FUEL INJECTION

The functions of the injector are similar to those of a carburetor of an internal combustion
engine. The injector has to introduce and meter the flow of liquid propellants to the combustion
chamber, cause the liquids to be broken up into small droplets (a process called atomization), and
distribute and mix the propellants in such a manner that a correctly proportioned mixture of fuel
and oxidizer will result, with uniform propellant mass flow and composition over the chamber
cross section. This has been accomplished with different types of injector designs and elements.
The injection hole pattern on the face of the injector is closely related to the internal manifolds
or feed passages within the injector. These provide for the distribution of the propellant from the
injector inlet to all the injection holes. A large complex manifold volume allows low passage
velocities and good distribution of flow over the cross section of the chamber. A small manifold
volume allows for a lighter weight injector and reduces the amount of "dribble" flow after the
main valves are shut. The higher passage velocities cause a more uneven flow through different
identical injection holes and thus a poorer distribution and wider local gas composition variation.
Dribbling results in afterburning, which is an inefficient irregular combustion that gives a little
"cutoff" thrust after valve closing. For applications with very accurate terminal vehicle velocity
requirements, the cutoff impulse has to be very small and reproducible and often valves are built
into the injector to minimize passage volume.

Impinging-stream-type, multiple-hole injectors are commonly used with oxygen-

hydrocarbon and storable propellants. For unlike doublet patterns the propellants are injected
through a number of separate small holes in such a manner that the fuel and oxidizer streams
impinge upon each other. Impingement forms thin liquid fans and aids atomization of the liquids
into droplets, also aiding distribution. The two liquid streams then form a fan which breaks up
into droplets.
 Unlike doublets work best when the hole size (more exactly, the volume flow) of the fuel
is about equal to that of the oxidizer and the ignition delay is long enough to allow the formation
of fans. For uneven volume flow the triplet pattern seems to be more effective.
 The non-impinging or shower head injector employs non-impinging streams of propellant
usually emerging normal to the face of the injector. It relies on turbulence and diffusion to
achieve mixing. The German World War II V-2 rocket used this type of injector. This type is now
not used, because it requires a large chamber volume for good combustion.

Sheet or spray-type injectors give cylindrical, conical, or other types of spray sheets;
these sprays generally intersect and thereby promote mixing and atomization. By varying the
width of the sheet (through an axially moveable sleeve) it is possible to throttle the propellant
flow over a wide range without excessive reduction in injector pressure drop. This type of
variable area concentric tube injector was used on the descent engine of the Lunar Excursion
Module and throttled over a 10:1 range of flow with only a very small change in mixture ratio.

The coaxial hollow post injector has been used for liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen
injectors by most domestic and foreign rocket designers. It works well when the liquid hydrogen
has absorbed heat from cooling jackets and has been gasified. This gasified hydrogen flows at
high speed (typically 330 m/sec or 1000 ft/sec); the liquid oxygen flows far more slowly (usually
at less than 33 m/sec or 100 ft/sec) and the differential velocity causes a shear action, which
helps to break up the oxygen stream into small droplets. The injector has a multiplicity of these
coaxial posts on its face.
 7. PHASES OF COMBUSTION IN THRUST CHAMBER

7.1. Rapid Combustion Zone

In this zone intensive and rapid chemical reactions occur at increasingly higher
temperature; any remaining liquid droplets are vaporized by convective heating and gas pockets
of fuel-rich and fuel-lean gases are mixed. The mixing is aided by local turbulence and diffusion
of the gas species. The further breakdown of the propellant chemicals into intermediate fractions
and smaller, simpler chemicals and the oxidation of fuel fractions occur rapidly in this zone. The
rate of heat release increases greatly and this causes the specific volume of the gas mixture to
increase and the local axial velocity to increase by a factor of 100 or more.

The rapid expansion of the heated gases also forces a series of local transverse gas flows
from hot high-burning-rate sites to colder low-burning-rate sites. The liquid droplets that may
still persist in the upstream portion of this zone do not follow the gas flow quickly and are
difficult to move in a transverse direction. Therefore, zones of fuel-rich or oxidizer-rich gases
will persist according to the orifice spray pattern in the upstream injection zone. The gas
composition and mixture ratio across the chamber section become more uniform as the gases
move through this zone, but the mixture never becomes truly uniform.

As the reaction product gases are accelerated, they become hotter (due to further heat
releases) and the lateral velocities become relatively small compared to the increasing axial
velocities. The combustion process is not a steady flow process. Some people believe that the
combustion is locally so intense that it approches localized explosions that create a series of
shock waves. When observing any one specific location in the chamber, one finds that there are
rapid fluctuations in pressure, temperature, density, mixture ratio, and radiation emissions with
time.
 7.2. Injection/Atomization Zone

Two different liquids are injected with storable propellants and with liquid
oxygen/hydrocarbon combinations. They are injected through orifices at velocities typically
between 7 and 60 m/sec or about 20 to 200 ft/sec. The injector design has a profound influence
on the combustion behavior and some seemingly minor design changes can have a major effect
on instability. The pattern, sizes, number, distribution, and types of orifices influence the
combustion behavior, as do the pressure drop, manifold geometry, or surface roughness in the
injection orifice walls.

The individual jets, streams, or sheets break up into droplets by impingement of one jet
with another (or with a surface), by the inherent instabilities of liquid sprays, or by the
interaction with gases at a different velocity and temperature. In this first zone the liquids are
atomized into a large number of small droplets. Heat is transferred to the droplets by radiation
from the very hot rapid combustion zone and by convection from moderately hot gases in the
first zone. The droplets evaporate and create local regions rich either in fuel vapor or oxidizer
vapor.

This first zone is heterogeneous; it contains liquids and vaporized propellant as well as
some burning hot gases. With the liquid being located at discrete sites, there are large gradients
in all directions with respect to fuel and oxidizer mass fluxes, mixture ratio, size and dispersion
of droplets, or properties of the gaseous medium. Chemical reactions occur in this zone, but the
rate of heat generation is relatively low, in part because the liquids and the gases are still
relatively cold and in part because vaporization near the droplets causes fuel-rich and fuel-lean
regions which do not burn as quickly. Some hot gases from the combustion zone are re-circulated
back from the rapid combustion zone, and they can create local gas velocities that flow across
the injector face.

The hot gases, which can flow in unsteady vortexes or turbulence patterns, are essential
to the initial evaporation of the liquids. The injection, atomization and vaporization processes are
different if one of the propellants is a gas. For example, this occurs in liquid oxygen with gaseous
hydrogen propellant in thrust chambers or pre-combustion chambers, where liquid hydrogen has
absorbed heat from cooling jackets and has been gasified. Hydrogen gas has no droplets and does
not evaporate. The gas usually has a much higher injection velocity (above 120 m/sec) than the
liquid propellant.

This cause shear forces to be imposed on the liquid jets, with more rapid droplet
formation and gasification. The preferred injector design for gaseous hydrogen and liquid oxygen
is different from the individual jet streams used with storable propellants.

7.3. Stream Tube Combustion Zone

In this zone oxidation reactions continue, but at a lower rate, and some additional heat is
released. However, chemical reactions continue because the mixture tends to be driven toward an
equilibrium composition. Since axial velocities are high (200 to 600 m/sec) the transverse
convective flow velocities become relatively small. Streamlines are formed and there is
relatively little turbulent mixing across streamline boundaries. Locally the flow velocity and the
pressure fluctuate somewhat. The residence time in this zone is very short compared to the
residence time in the other two zones. The streamline type, inviscid flow, and the chemical
reactions toward achieving chemical equilibrium persist not only throughout the remainder of the
combustion chamber, but are also extended into the nozzle. Actually, the major processes do not
take place strictly sequentially, but several seem to occur simultaneously in several parts of the
chamber. The flame front is not a simple plane surface across the combustion chamber

There is turbulence in the gas flow in all parts of the combustion chamber. The residence
time of the propellant material in the combustion chamber is very short, usually less than 10
milliseconds. Combustion in a liquid rocket engine is very dynamic, with the volumetric heat
release being approximately 370 MJ/m3-sec, which is much higher than in turbojets. Further, the
higher temperature in a rocket causes chemical reaction rates to be several times faster
(increasing exponentially with temperature) than in turbojet.
The four phases of combustion in the thrust chamber are
1. Primary Ignition
2. Flame Propagation
3. Flame Lift off
4. Flame Anchoring

7.4. Primary Ignition

begins at the time of deposition of the energy into the shear layer and ends when the
flame front has reached the outer limit of the shear layer
starts interaction with the recirculation zone.
phase typically lasts about half a millisecond
it is characterised by a slight but distinct downstream movement of the flame .
The flame velocity more or less depends on the pre-mixedness of the shear layer only.

7.5. Flame Propagation

This phase corresponds to the time span for the flame reaching the edge of the shear
layer, expands into in the recirculation zone and propagates until it has consumed all the
premixed propellants.
 This period lasts between 0.1 and 2 ms.
It is characterised by an upstream movement of the upstream flame front until it reaches a
minimum distance from the injector face plate.
It is accompanied by a strong rise of the flame intensity and by a peak in the combustion
chamber pressure.
The duration of this phase as well as the pressure and emission behaviour during this
phase depend strongly on the global characteristics of the stationary cold flow before
ignition.

7.6. Flame Lift Off

 phase starts when the upstream flame front begins to move downstream away from the
injector because all premixed propellants in the recirculation zone have been consumed
until it reaches a maximum distance.
This period lasts between 1 and 5 ms.
The emission of the flame is less intense showing that the chemical activity has
decreased.
The position where the movement of the upstream flame front comes to an end, the
characteristic times of convection and flame propagation are balanced.

7.7. Flame Anchoring.

This period lasts from 20 ms to more than 50 ms, depending on the injection condition.
It begins when the flame starts to move a second time upstream to injector face plate and
ends when the flame has reached stationary conditions.
During this phase the flame propagates upstream only in the shear layer .
Same as flame lift-off phase the vaporisation is enhanced by the hot products which are
entrained into the shear layer through the recirculation zone.
The flame is stabilised at a position where an equilibrium exists between the local
velocity of the flame front and the convective flow velocity.
 This local flame velocity is depending on the upstream LOX-evaporation rates, i.e., the
available gaseous O2, mixing of O2 and H2, hot products and radicals in the shear layer.
At the end of this phase, combustion chamber pressure and emission intensity are
constant.
 8. DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRYOGENIC ENGINES

8.1. HM-7B Rocket Engine

HM-7 cryogenic propellant rocket engine has been used as an upper stage engine on all
versions of the Ariane launcher. The more powerful HM-7B version was used on Ariane's 2, 3
and 4 and is also used on the ESC-A cryogenic upper stage of Ariane 5. Important principles
used in the HM-7 combustion chamber were adopted by NASA under license and it is this
technology that formed the basis of today's US space shuttle main engines - the first reusable
rocket engine in the world.
 The HM7 engine was built upon the development work of the 40kN HM-4 engine. In
1973, the Ottobrunn team started development of the HM-7 thrust chamber for the third stage of
Ariane 1. Six years later, the HM-7 engine was successfully qualified with the first launch of
Ariane 1 in December 1979.

With the introduction of Ariane 2 and Ariane 3, it became necessary to increase the
performance of the HM-7 engine. This was achieved by raising the combustion chamber pressure
from 30 to 35 bar and extending the nozzle, thereby raising the specific impulse. The burn time
was also increased from 570 to 735 seconds. The upgraded engine was thus designated HM-7B
and was qualified in 1983. When subsequently used on Ariane 4, the burn time was increased to
780 seconds.

In February 2005, the HM-7B successfully powered the new cryogenic upper stage of
Ariane 5, designate ESC-A (Etage Superior Cryo-technique A). This flight was a tribute to the
performance and flight proven reliability of an engine first developed 30 years ago. With the
ESC-A upper stage, the payload performance of Ariane 5 is increased to 10 tonnes. In order to
inherit the proven reliability of the HM-7B engine from over one hundred Ariane 4 flights,
engine changes were kept to a minimum. The main change being a 20% increase in burn time
from 780 seconds to 950 seconds on Ariane 5 ESC-A.

Use of HM-7B on Ariane 5 is a first step toward increasing the payload performance of
Ariane 5. A second step will be the introduction of the new Vinci expander cycle engine to an
ESC-B cryogenic upper stage, increasing the payload performance to 12 tonnes
 The HM7B engine is a gas generator liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen engine that powers
the Ariane 4 third stage. The HM7 engine built upon the development work of the 40 kN thrust
HM4. The HM7 development program began in 1973 as part of Europe's effort to develop an
indigenous launch capability. Final qualification of the HM7 engine occurred in 1979 and the
engine went on to power the third stage of the Ariane 1. SEP continued to perfect and upgrade
the engine, increasing the specific impulse by 4 seconds by increasing chamber pressure and
lengthening the nozzle. The new engine, the HM7B, powered the third stage of the Ariane 2,3
and 4. As of June 1st, 1995, SEP had produced 111 HM7B engines, with a cumulated total of
171,700 seconds of operation, including 47,400 in flight.

8.2. 300 N Cryogenic Engine:

 This 300 N cryogenic propellant engine has a vacuum Isp of 415 seconds - the highest
value ever achieved in Europe for an engine of such small size. Being pressure-fed, the engine
assembly is relatively simple and avoids the need for a turbo-pump. The thrust chamber and
throat region of the engine are regenerative cooled using hydrogen propellant. The nozzle
extension is radiation cooled.

The engine incorporates a splash-plate injector having a star shaped configuration.

Ignition and subsequent re-ignition is achieved using Tri-ethyl aluminum (TEA) - which is
hypergolic with the oxygen propellant. The number of re-ignitions is a function of the volume of
Tri-ethyl aluminum accommodated. The engine nominally provides for 1 ignition and 3 re-
ignitions using just 1.5 cc of Tri-ethyl aluminum. The use of a chemical ignition system enables a
very compact design.

The engine needs no pre-cooling prior to ignition. Only the propellant feed lines to the
engine propellant valves need be pre-cooled. Engine construction materials are mainly stainless
steel, Nimonic 75 (Chromium-Nickel Alloy) and copper.

Applications
The 300 N cryogenic engines enable the simplicity of a pressure fed propulsion system
whilst offering the performance of a turbo-pump propulsion system. Being pressure fed,
the engine does not require an additional turbo-pump, with its associated complexity.
 The 300 N cryogenic engines may be used as a main engine in dedicated stages for
orbital insertion, orbital transfer, orbital, and interplanetary applications, including:
Upper stages Kick stages Vernier stages Transfer stages
The 300 N cryogenic engines may also be used as a thruster, or thruster cluster with
existing cryogenic turbo-pump propulsion systems and stages for such applications as
performance augmentation, upgrades, roll control.

8.3. Vulcain Rocket Engine

Vulcain (also known as HM-60) was the first main engine of the Ariane 5 cryogenic first
stage (EPC). The development of Vulcain, assured by a European collaboration, began in 1988
with the Ariane 5 rocket program. It first flew in 1996 powering the ill-fated flight 501 without
being the cause of the disaster, and had its first successful flight in 1997 (flight 502). In 2002 the
upgraded Vulcain 2 with 20% more thrust first flew on flight 517, although a problem with the
engine turned the flight into a failure. The cause was due to flight loads being much higher than
expected, as the inquiry board concluded.

Subsequently, the nozzle has been redesigned, reinforcing the structure and improving the
thermal situation of the tube wall, enhancing hydrogen coolant flow as well as applying thermal
barrier coating to the flame-facing side of the coolant tubes, reducing heat load. The first
successful flight of the (partially redesigned) Vulcain 2 occurred in 2005 on flight 521. The
Vulcain engines are gas-generator cycle cryogenic rocket engines fed with liquid oxygen and
liquid hydrogen.
 They feature regenerative cooling through a tube wall design, and the Vulcain 2
introduced a particular film cooling for the lower part of the nozzle, where exhaust gas from the
turbine is re-injected in the engine They power the first stage of the Ariane 5 launcher, the EPC
(tage Principal Cryo technique, main cryogenic stage) and provide 8% of the total lift-off thrust
(the rest being provided by the two solid rocket boosters). The engine operating time is 600 s in
both configurations.

The coaxial injector elements cause the LOX and LH2 propellants to be mixed together.
LOX is injected at the centre of the injector, around which the LH2 is injected. These propellants
are mainly atomized and mixed by shear forces generated by the velocity differences between
LOX and LH2. The final acceleration of hot gases, up to supersonic velocities, is achieved by gas
expansion in the nozzle extension, thereby increasing the thrust.

Applications:

main engine of the Ariane 5 cryogenic first stage (EPC)

8.4. VINCI Rocket Engine:

Vinci is a European Space Agency cryogenic rocket engine currently under development.
It is designed to power the new upper stage of Ariane 5, ESC-B, and will be the first European
re-ignitable cryogenic upper stage engine, raising the launcher's GTO performances to 12 t. Vinci
is an expander cycle rocket engine fed with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. Its biggest
improvement from its predecessor, the HM-7 is the capability of restarting up to five times. It is
also the first European expander cycle engine, removing the need for a gas generator to drive the
fuel and oxydizer pumps. It features a carbon ceramic extendable nozzle in order to have a large,
2.15 m diameter nozzle extension with minimum length: the retracted nozzle part is deployed
only after the upper stage separates from the rest of the rocket; after extension, the engine's
overall length increases from 2.3 m to 4.2 m.
Applications:

upper stage of Ariane 5

 9. CONCLUSION

The area of Cryogenics in Cryogenic Rocket Engines is a vast one and it cannot be
described in a few words. As the world progress new developments are being made more and
more new developments are being made in the field of Rocket Engineering. Now a day cryo
propelled rocket engines are having a great demand in the field of space exploration. Due to the
high specific impulse obtained during the ignition of fuels they are of much demand.
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