F1 Rocket Engine Firing
Engineers working this month at the marshall space flight center in huntsville ala are.
F1 rocket engine firing. The f 1 is a gas generator cycle rocket engine burning a bit of fuel outside the combustion chamber to power the pumps of the engine. When the original f 1 lit up the gas generator powered the giant turbomachinery that pumped almost three tons of propellant each second into the thrust chamber and accelerated through the nozzle creating the incredible 15 million pounds of thrust. Each engine provided 1500000 pounds for a combined thrust of 7500000 pounds with liquid oxygen and kerosene as its propellants. The f 1 was a liquid fueled rocket motor burning rp 1 kerosene as fuel and using liquid oxygen lox as the oxidizer.
The gas generator from an f 1 engine is test fired at the marshall space flight center in huntsville ala on jan. The heart of the engine was the thrust chamber which mixed and burned the fuel and oxidizer to produce thrust. Five f 1 engines were used in the s ic first stage of each saturn v which served as the main launch vehicle of the apollo programthe f 1 remains the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid propellant rocket engine. But theres a very practical reason why nasa is putting old rocket parts up on a test stand and firing them off.
Its latest launch vehicle might be powered by engines that look sound and work a. The rs 25 rocket engine had a 500 second test on the a 1 test stand at nasas stennis space center in mississippi according to space agency. The f 1 was developed by engineers at nasas marshall space flight center in huntsville ala and its industry team. The saturn v s ic first stage utilized five f 1 engines for its thrust.
A turbopump was used to inject fuel and oxygen into the combustion chamber. The cluster of five f 1 engines burned a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel at more than 15 metric tons per second during its two and one half minutes of operation. This photograph depicts the rocketdyne static firing of the f 1 engine at the towering 76 meter test stand 1 c in area 1 125 of the edwards air force base in california. Earlier today nasa test fired an f 1 engines gas generator.