HOT GAS, COOL WALLS
Orbital Technologies Corp.--a Madison, Wis., company working with seed money from NASA--has demonstrated a small rocket engine that uses a vortex inside its combustion chamber to keep the chamber walls cool (see photo). Oxygen injected at the bottom of the combustion chamber sets up a vortex. When...
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