Altitude Compensating Nozzle Using Gas from a Combustible Material

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Patent No.
7,815,146
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Device or Machine

A fixed sized bell rocket nozzle is lined with a layer of combustible material that is ignited during launch ignition and burns to outgas into the rocket exhaust for spatially variably confining the exhaust and perfecting an effective variably sized altitude compensating exhaust nozzle that maximizes lift during the launch of a spacecraft into orbit.

Keywords: nozzle, rocket
International Class: B64F1/04, F02K9/00