SpaceX Kestrel
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spacex-kestrel-252-665307
title:
SpaceX Kestrel
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The SpaceX Kestrel was an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. The Kestrel engine was developed in the 2000s by SpaceX for upper stage use on the Falcon 1 rocket. Kestrel is no longer being manufactured; the last flight of Falcon 1 was in 2009. Kestrel was built around the same pintle architecture as the SpaceX Merlin engine but does not have a turbopump and is fed only by tank pressure. Kestrel was ablatively cooled in the chamber and throat and radiatively cooled in the nozzle, which was fabri
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Family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Falcon 1 launch vehicles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Kestrel
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2021-08-29T14:48:45Z
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