Abstract
Contemporary gas generated systems and steering systems are complex, costly to manufacture, and costly to process prior to launch. Contemporary expander cycle rocket engines are limited to low thrust engine sizes due to the square cube rule. Proposed engine architecture (regeneratively cooled jet vanes) will produce an operationally efficient, expander cycle engine design with thrust levels of approximately 240,000 lbf or more that is integrated with the steering system to produce an engine/jet vane combo which reduces operational and processing cost versus contemporary engine/TVC combos. A full expander cycle engine can obtain equivalent thrust and superior specific impulse over the J-2X gas generator cycle engine while being much lower in manufacturing & processing costs via the use of this architecture. This increase in operational efficiency and specific impulse is accomplished by obtaining additional heat energy for the turbine from regenerative-cooled steering-jet-vanes.
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