Aerospace Engines A to Z
Aerospace Engines A to Z

Updated: 21-Nov-2022

Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm is the result of joining Messerchmitt-Bölkow with Hamburger-Flugzeubau in 1969.

-MBB manufactured helicopters and in the field of engines it built rockets, pulse jets, etc.

Messerschmitt type pulse jet
“Messerschmitt type pulse jet”

-The MBB-016 pulse jet engine was the first model giving 36 Kgf of thrust and weighing 10 Kg running on JP-4 or JP-5 fuel.

-The one shown is a valveless pulse jet.

Solid ram-effect rocket engine
“Solid ram-effect rocket engine”

-In rockets MMB made a family of solid-fuel rocket engines like the one photographed, taking advantage of the ram effect.

-For the propulsion of storable missiles, high-energy solid fuels such as boron or medium-energy, made of compound grains such as UDMH and MMH, were used.

Missile with MBB ram-effect rocket engine
“Missile with ram-effect rocket engine”

-It had frontal air inlets through which the oxygen was supplied.

-They are rocket engines with the ram-effect air acting as thrust augmenter by being heated through the heat of the nozzle and so accelerating its speed.

MBB rocket engine in pulse mode, generating ‘diamonds’
“MBB rocket engine in pulse mode, generating ‘diamonds’ ”

-The MBB that gives 680 Kgf of thrust, runs on H2/O2 and which we see above in pulse mode at 7 Hz.

Liquid fuel rocket
"Liquid fuel rocket"

-Other rockets like the one shown that gives 49 kN at sea level run on liquid oxygen and kerosene. They are considered high pressure.

-The L-7 engine used N2O4/MMH giving 2,800 Kgf in vacuum. It was built from 1996 to 1998.

-The ATC-500 was more powerful with 45,000 Kgf of thrust. For the Beta vehicle it used LOX/LH2.

-Since 1973, MBB has collaborated with SEP to develop the HM-7 for the Ariane's third stage. This engine ran on LH2/LO2 and gave 60 kN of thrust.

From Appendix 6: For the Europe rocket of ELDO, the previous organization of the current ESA, in its Blue Streak version as the first stage and in the second stage the Cora 2 (Coralie made in Germany by MBB and ERNO), and for the third the Astris engine, shown below, was made.

Motor Astris
“Astris engine”

-The Astris used Aerozina (a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH) and nitrogen tetroxide, with a little more than 5,000 lbf of thrust (23,300 kN) and for a burning time of 330 seconds.

-Its first launch was in 1964, although it seems that it had several failures and the Europe program was canceled in favor of the new Ariane program.

-Many rocket engine projects were carried out at MBB's Ottobrun factory in Munich, including tests with high-energy fuels such as hydrogen with fluorine.

MBB H-20
“MBB H-20”

-In 1972 two other MBB high-energy rocket engines were shown, but they were built and tested in conjunction with Rocketdyne. They delivered about 13,000 Kgf of thrust.

MBB engine pressure chambers
"MBB engine pressure chambers"

From Appendix 9: There appear the L-7, ATO-500 rocket engines in this brand.

Engines of MBB

Model: ATC-500 (ATO-500)

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Model: H-20

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Model: L-7

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Model: Pulsejets

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Model: Ram-rocket engine

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Model: Ramjets

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Model: Rocket engines

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