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regenerative cooling



The cooling of part of a rocket engine by the propellant. A regeneratively-cooled engine is one in which the fuel or oxidizer, or both, is circulated around the combustion chamber or nozzle. The technique was initially developed by James Wyld and Harry Bull.


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