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turbopump

[tur-boh-puhmp]

noun

  1. a turbine-driven pump, as one used to feed propellant to a rocket engine.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of turbopump1

First recorded in 1900–05; turbo- + pump 1
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Example Sentences

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Soot forms in fuel-rich combustion chambers, fuel-cooling nozzle walls and turbopump gas generators, and is partly consumed in the hot plumes.

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At one point he describes a rocket engine turbopump, which forced liquid hydrogen and oxygen into the combustion chamber and had to go from a standing stop to 38,000 rpm in less than a second, as about the size of a “Christmas cake,” whatever that is.

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NASA's independent review team said last week that the initial fire was caused by friction from rubbing parts in a turbopump in one of the rocket's old Russian-built engines.

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Orbital said the cause of the failure was most likely a manufacturing defect in a turbopump in one of the rocket’s two AJ-26 engines, a Soviet-era motor refurbished and resold by Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. Aerojet in September paid Orbital $50 million to settle the dispute.

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Both investigations said a fire and explosion in the rocket engine’s liquid oxygen turbopump caused the booster to fail about 14 seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia.

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