Liquid Rocket Engines (J-2X, RS-25, general)

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Inside The J-2X Doghouse: Performance Measurement, Part 1 of 2 Sep 14, 2012 09:28:12 AM | William D. Greene
 
My first job after graduate school it was doing test data reduction and performance calculations for the Space Shuttle Main Engine. How cool is that? Trust me: very cool.
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J-2X Progress: Engine Assembly, Volume 5 May 20, 2011 03:33:48 PM | William D. Greene
 
Time for a trip "under the hood" of the J-2X engine assembly.
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J-2X Progress: Valves, Commands into Action Jan 25, 2011 11:54:43 AM | William D. Greene
 
Everyone seems to like analogies between the composition of a rocket engine and that of the human body --and in some cases, they work pretty well!
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J-2X Extra: The Faces Behind J-2X, NASA MSFC, Part 1 Jan 20, 2011 12:06:04 PM | William D. Greene
 
An introduction to just a few of the people -- out of hundreds -- responsible for making J-2X engine a reality.
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J-2X Progress: The Main Combustion Chamber -- the Heart of the Fire Jan 06, 2011 04:23:58 PM | William D. Greene
 
Containing combustion products at 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit and pressure over 1,300 pounds per square inch? Sounds like a job for an MCC!
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J-2X Progress: Turbomachinery: One More Pic Dec 22, 2010 01:03:18 PM | William D. Greene
 
The turbopumps for Engine 10001 are assembled!
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Inside The J-2X Doghouse: The Gas-Generator Cycle Engine Dec 15, 2010 10:51:58 AM | William D. Greene
 
How do you provide enough propellant to move something like, say, the Saturn V that was over 300 feet tall and weighing millions of pounds? That's where things get interesting.
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J-2X Progress: Turbomachinery -- The Rotating Components Dec 08, 2010 12:53:56 AM | William D. Greene
 
There is no denying that rocket engine turbopumps are truly remarkable pieces of machinery.
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J-2X Extras: Rebuilding the Past Dec 01, 2010 10:50:54 AM | William D. Greene
 
Why didn't NASA just dust off the old J-2 engine instead of launching into the J-2X development effort? There's a moral to that story...
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J-2X Progress: The J-2X Test Stands Nov 22, 2010 10:48:57 AM | William D. Greene
 
Okay, so now you have a great big rocket engine. What are you going to do with it? Well, fire it, of course! But where are you going to do this...?
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J-2X Progress: Delivery of the Development Program HEXs! Nov 17, 2010 10:42:52 AM | William D. Greene
 
In this case, being "HEX-ed" is a good thing for a rocket engine!
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Inside the J-2X Doghouse: What is a Rocket? Nov 10, 2010 12:48:26 PM | William D. Greene
 
Want to be an honorary Datadog? Come inside the "J-2X Doghouse" to learn more about rockets and rocket engines.
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Welcome to the J-2X Blog! Nov 05, 2010 03:33:37 PM | William D. Greene
 
Did you know that we stand on the brink of testing the first new, large, human-rated liquid rocket developed in this country since Gerald Ford was President?
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