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Powerhead (rocket engine)

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(Redirected from Powerpack (rocket engine)) Major component of a liquid rocket engine
Diagram showing the powerhead of the Space Shuttle Main Engine

A liquid rocket engine powerhead (or powerpack) is the turbopumps, preburners, and all the requisite equipment for a non-pressure-fed rocket engine cycle rocket engine, minus the combustion chamber and the expansion nozzle.

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  1. Pasquale M Sforza (27 September 2011). Theory of Aerospace Propulsion. Elsevier. p. 441. ISBN 978-0-12-384889-5. The combustion chamber with its associated equipment and structure is often called the powerhead...
  2. Chowdhury A, et al. (2016). Conceptual design of a supercritical oxyfuel combustor based on LOX/methane rocket engine technologies. 14th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference. p. 4636.


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