Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a rocket propellant consisting of fuel and an oxidizer that ignite spontaneously on contact.
- adjective Using such a fuel.
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- adjective Of
fuel orpropellant ,igniting spontaneously on contact with an oxidiser.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The new fuel is hypergolic, meaning that it needs no ignition source, but burns when exposed to an oxidizer.
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The new fuel is hypergolic, meaning that it needs no ignition source, but burns when exposed to an oxidizer.
DailyTech News Feed 2009
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The fuels are hypergolic, meaning they require no ignition source but ignite spontaneously when mixed with an oxidizer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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I don't know how well the math works but if the propulsion needs are light enough, or if the mission module could carry some simple hypergolic fuelled trusters, but maybe you could use the "mission module" with a cheaper, LEO optimized capsule like Dragon or even Soyuz.
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This should include hypergolic refuelling for both the landers and the Earth-to-EML Orion crew shuttles (~2030-35).
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- Non-toxic hypergolic fuels should be an abiding goal.
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Higher silanes + H2O2 are expected to be a dense, space storable and hypergolic propellant combination with better Isp and lower toxicity than MMH/NTO.
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Scale back the two stage partly cryogenic, partly hypergolic Altair to a single stage, all hypergolic, refuelable and reusable cis-lunar shuttle with 2-3 km/s total delta-v.
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Gemini/Titan didn't require more than ejection easts since the propellants didn't detonate (being hypergolic).
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The leather gloved hands that work the lathe are stilled in their quest for the perfect receiver *; the monocle * drops from the eye studying hypergolic fuels *; even the simple pleasures of human sexual acts are confounded when the tranquility of classical rhythm is confounded with the squawk of some seagull.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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