{"id":25580,"date":"2026-04-08T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/?p=25580"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:29:00","slug":"design-study-of-a-30kn-lox-lch4-aerospike-rocket-engine-for-lunar-lander-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/design-study-of-a-30kn-lox-lch4-aerospike-rocket-engine-for-lunar-lander-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Study of a 30kN LOX\/LCH4 Aerospike Rocket Engine for Lunar Lander Application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>R. STARK; S. BARTEL; F. DITSCHE; T. ESCH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOI Number: 10.13009\/EUCASS2023-059<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on lunar lander concept EL3, various LOX\/CH4 aerospike engines were studied. A distinction was made between single and cluster configurations as well as ideal and non-ideal contour concepts. It could be shown that non-ideal aerospike engines promise a significant payload gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eucass.eu\/doi\/EUCASS2023-059.pdf\">Read the full paper here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>R. STARK; S. BARTEL; F. DITSCHE; T. ESCH<\/b><\/p>\n<p>DOI Number: 10.13009\/EUCASS2023-059<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766,993,3776],"tags":[3925,3926],"class_list":["post-25580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-aerospace-europe-conference-2023","category-events","category-10-propulsion-physics","tag-aerospike-engine","tag-lunar-lander","category-3766","category-993","category-3776","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25581,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25580\/revisions\/25581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}