The SpaceX Draco is a family of small hypergolic liquid rocket engines that SpaceX designed and built for its Dragon space capsules. Two engine types exist, the original Draco thruster and the much larger SuperDraco. The Draco thruster produces 400 newtons of thrust from a storable, non-cryogenic propellant pair of monomethyl hydrazine fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, and sixteen of them handle attitude control and maneuvering on the Dragon spacecraft. SuperDraco burns the same propellants but delivers far more thrust, and was developed to give Crew Dragon a launch abort capability, with development partly funded through NASA's CCDev 2 program. Both can restart many times, so the family combines the work of a reaction control system with that of a main propulsive engine.
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Fuel or Cycle Displacement or Thrust400 newtons (90 pounds-force) of thrust per Draco thruster 1 Connections
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Source SpaceX Draco (Wikipedia)
Of Make
Source SpaceX Draco (Wikipedia)
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1. SpaceX Draco (Wikipedia)
- Fuel or Cycle: Rocket Propellant
- Displacement or Thrust: 400 newtons (90 pounds-force) of thrust per Draco thruster
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