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| Description | Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Viking 5C: This is the Viking 5C engine. Four Viking 5C liquid-propellant rocket engines were used to propel the first stage of the Ariane 4 expendable launch vehicle used by the European Space Agency from 1990 to 2003. A consortium of six countries, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, and Italy, designed and manufactured this engine. It uses a form of transpiration or "sweat cooling." In sweat cooling, a coolant (the fuel) is injected uniformly and continuously over the internal wall of the nozzle by using a porous wall material. The developer of this technique for the Viking was Heinz Bringer who had worked on a similar system during the development of the German V-2 rocket of World War II. This object was donated to the Smithsonian in 2006 by SAFRAN. |
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| Source | Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Viking 5C |
| Author | Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA (Outside Washington DC), USA |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by cliff1066™ at https://www.flickr.com/photos/28567825@N03/2911397164. It was reviewed on 6 June 2010 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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