High temperature composite nozzle extensions, a mature and efficient technology to improve upper stage Liquid Rocket Engine performance

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 4522-4540

  Lacombe, Alain ^a,b,c,d   Pichon, Thierry ^a,c,e   Lacoste, Marc ^a,f  

^a SNECMA   (France)

^b High Temperature Composites Business Unit   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d AIAA Material Technical Committee   (France)

^e High Temperature Composites Business Unit ^*  (United States)

^f High Temperature Composites Business Unit

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATAPULTS (AIRCRAFT LAUNCHERS); COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ROCKET ENGINES; SILICON CARBIDE;

CARBON-SILICON CARBIDE; NOZZLE EXTENSIONS; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; THRUST TO WEIGHT RATIO;

NOZZLES;

EID: 36749051214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5470     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. J.J. Choury, Carbon-Carbon Materials for nozzles of solid propellant rocket motors AIAA paper 76-609. 12th Propulsion Conference - PALO ALTO, CA. July 26-29, 1976.
2. AIAA Technical Paper 92-3551. "Hot Gas Thrust Vector Control Motor." Michel Berdoyes, SEP, France and Russell A. Ellis, CSD, USA. Presented at 28th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Nashville, TN, July 6-8, 1992.
3. rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Seattle, WA, July 6-9, 1997.
4. IAF Technical Paper IAF-97-S.2.04. "Carbon-Carbon Extendible Nozzles." M. Lacoste, A. Lacombe, and P. Joyez, SEP, France and R. A. Ellis, J. C. Lee, and F.M. Payne, CSD, USA. Presented at 48th International Astronautical Congress, Turin, Italy, October 6-10, 1997.
5. AIAA Technical Paper 98-3363. "Testing of the RL10B-2 Carbon-Carbon Nozzle Extension." R. A. Ellis, J. C. Lee, and F. M. Payne, CSD, USA and M. Lacoste, A. Lacombe, and P. Joyez, SEP, France. Presented at 34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cleveland, OH, July 13-15, 1998.
6. IAF Technical Paper IAF-98-S.3.06. "Carbon-Carbon Nozzle Extension." M. Lacoste, A. Lacombe, and P. Joyez, SEP, France, and R. A. Ellis, J. C. Lee, and F.M. Payne, CSD, USA. Presented at 49th International Astronautical Congress, Melbourne, Austrailia, September 28-October 2, 1998.
7. AIAA 2002-3585 "Ground Qualification of an improved C-C deployable nozzle extention assembly for Delta IV" -A. Lacombe, T. Pichon, M. Ferry, Snecma Propulsion Solide Le Haillan, France, and R. Ellis, S Humbert, F.M. Payne, Pratt & Whitney, San José, CA. Presented at AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 38th Joint Propulsion Conference, July 7-10, 2002 / Indianapolis, IN
8. Deployable nozzle extension for the ariane 5 upper stage engine "vinci" : status of the development - H. Coperet, A. Lacombe, A. Mercier, Snecma Propulsion Solide, 33187- Le Haillan, France - 4th International Conference on Launcher Technology "Space Launcher Liquid Propulsion"- 3-6 December 2002. Liège (Belgium)
9. Vinci Upper Stage Engine Nozzle Extension Development Status - Thierry Pichon*, Hervé Coperet, Armelle Foucault, and Alain Lacombe - Snecma Propulsion Solide, SAFRAN group, Les Cinq Chemins, 33187, Le Haillan Cedex, France- Presented at IAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 40th Joint Propulsion Conference.