electric pump-fed engine

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The electric-pump-fed engine is a bipropellant rocket engine in which the fuel pumps are electrically powered, and so all of the input propellant is directly burned in the main combustion chamber, and none is diverted to drive the pumps. This differs from traditional rocket engine designs, in which the pumps are driven by a portion of the input propellants.

    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    classrocket engineRutherfordliquid-propellant rocket, electric pump-fed engineWikidata