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  2. Comparison of orbital rocket engines - Wikipedia

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    This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications. Current, upcoming, and in-development rocket engines ... Saturn V, IB: 2nd, 3rd

  3. Saturn V-3 - Wikipedia

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    The Saturn V-3 was studied by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965. [ 2 ] The first stage, called MS-IC-1, was to have used new F-1 engines designated F-1A which utilized a pump-fed design, an anticipated 20% additional thrust, and a six-second improvement in specific impulse on an F-1, with the first stage stretched 20 feet.

  4. Saturn (rocket family) - Wikipedia

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    Three variants of the Saturn family which were developed: Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V. The Saturn family of American rockets was developed by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. The Saturn family used liquid hydrogen as fuel in the upper stages.

  5. Rocketdyne F-1 - Wikipedia

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    The engine uses a gas-generator cycle developed in the United States in the late 1950s and was used in the Saturn V rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s. 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 program .

  6. Saturn V - Wikipedia

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    The rocket used the powerful F-1 and J-2 rocket engines; during testing at Stennis Space Center, the force developed by the engines shattered the windows of nearby houses. [52] Designers decided early on to attempt to use as much technology from the Saturn I program as possible for the Saturn V.

  7. S-IC-T - Wikipedia

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    S-IC-T was planned as a test rocket only and not to be used in the later Apollo program. The Saturn V rocket was used in the Apollo program to depart Earth's gravity. S-IC-T, like all following Saturn V's S-IC rockets used five Rocketdyne F-1 engines. The Rocketdyne F-1 engine was first tested in March 1959 and delivered to NASA in October 1963.

  8. S-IVB - Wikipedia

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    The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI).

  9. Rocket engine - Wikipedia

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    RS-68 being tested at NASA's Stennis Space Center Viking 5C rocket engine used on Ariane 1 through Ariane 4. A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed jet of high-temperature gas produced by the combustion of rocket propellants stored inside the rocket.