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Illinois' 1st  Student Built Thrust Chamber

GRUNT is LRI's earliest attempt at liquid engine design. A simple thrust chamber assembly concept ÅŸs used to verify our injector concept and demonstrate our ability to build liquid rocket engines. The engine has successfully passed a cold flow test.

Design Specifications

0.4 s

Burn Duration

1100 lbf

Thrust

10 kpa

Chamber Pressure

Headplate

Chamber

Plate

Plate

Jet A-Lox

Propellant

Pintle

Injector

Pressure Fed

Feed System

Project Status

Grunt's combustion chamber was recently completed by Danville Metal Stamping. We successfully ran a cold flow test on the engine in our home-built engine test stand. We will hot fire Grunt soon!

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