• DOI:10.1051/EUCASS/201911447
• Corpus ID: 139531422

Development of LM10-MIRA liquid oxygen – liquid natural gas expander cycle demonstrator engine

@article{Bellomi2019DevelopmentOL,
  title={Development of LM10-MIRA liquid oxygen – liquid natural gas expander cycle demonstrator engine},
  author={Paolo Bellomi and Mikhail Rudnykh and Stefano Carapellese and Daniele Liuzzi and Giuseppe Caggiano and Luigi Arione and A. A. Gurtovoy and S. D. Lobov and V. Rachuk and E. d’Aversa and A. de Lillis and Rocco Carmine Pellegrini},
  journal={Progress in Propulsion Physics – Volume 11},
  year={2019}
}

• P. Bellomi, Mikhail Rudnykh, +9 authors R. Pellegrini
• Published 2019
• Engineering
• Progress in Propulsion Physics – Volume 11

This article contains results of joint works by Konstruktorskoe Buro Khimavtomatiki (KBKhA, Russia) and AVIO Company (Italy) on creation of the LM10-MIRA liquid-propellant rocket demonstrator engine for the third stage of the upgraded “Vega” launcher. Scientific and research activities conducted by KBKhA and AVIO in 2007–2014 in the frame of the LYRA Program, funded by the Italian Space Agency, with ELV as Prime contractor, and under dedicated ASI-Roscosmos interagencies agreement, were aimed at development and testing of a 7.5-ton thrust expander cycle demonstrator engine propelled by oxygen and liquid natural gas (LNG).