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Aerospace glossary

Full-flow staged combustion

Also called FFSC

A staged-combustion cycle with two preburners, one fuel-rich and one oxygen-rich, so all propellant passes through the turbines. It allows very high chamber pressure with cooler turbines, at the cost of complexity.

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