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Answer by Polygnome for Is it correct to say that a LH2/LOX rocket uses water...

No, it is not.The exhaust is water, not the propellant. The propellant is a bi-propellant consisting of liquid H2 and liquid O2.The bi-propellant is injected into the combustion chamber, where it...

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Is it correct to say that a LH2/LOX rocket uses water as propellant?

The title more or less sums it up.A rocket engine works pretty much by combining fuel and oxidizer, and expelling some propellant resulting in foward motion as described by Newton's third law of motion...

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