Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engine Quiz

What is the main advantage of using liquid propellants in rocket engines?

Why are gaseous propellants not commonly used in liquid-propellant rockets?

What technology allows some aerospace companies to use electric pumps with batteries in liquid rockets?

In simpler small engines, what is sometimes used instead of pumps to force the propellants into the combustion chamber?

Which type of rockets using two types of propellant are common in liquid rockets?

What is a major advantage of monopropellant rockets in comparison to bipropellant rockets?

Who first appeared the idea of a liquid rocket as understood in the modern context?

Which Soviet rocket-engine designer pursued rocket research at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL)?

What was the name of the Moscow based group formed by Fredrich Tsander for the study of Reactive Motion?

Who replaced Fredrich Tsander as the head of GIRD?

Which rocket reached an altitude of 400 metres (1,300 ft) in the first Soviet liquid propelled rocket launch?

Who was designing and building liquid rocket engines running on compressed air and gasoline in Moscow?

What was the design that was one of the first engines to be regeneratively cooled by the liquid oxygen?

Who influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe?

In which year did Mikhail Tikhonravov launch the first Soviet liquid propelled rocket?

In which book did the idea of a liquid rocket first appear in the modern context?