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has gloss | eng: A Liquid Air Cycle Engine (LACE) is a type of spacecraft propulsion engine that has never flown that attempts to gain efficiency by gathering part of its oxidizer from the atmosphere. In a LOX/LH2 bipropellant rocket the liquid oxygen needed for combustion is the majority of the weight of the spacecraft on lift-off, so if some of this can be collected from the air on the way, it might dramatically lower the take-off weight of the spacecraft. |
lexicalization | eng: Liquid Air Cycle Engine |
instance of | e/Single-stage-to-orbit |
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