Liquid Oxygen Augmented Gas Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket

TL;DR — A concept paper that adds a liquid-oxygen afterburner to a gas-core nuclear rocket’s nozzle to trade some efficiency for much more thrust.

Advances in Aerospace Science and Applications 3(3), 2013, from an aeronautical engineering department in Chennai. It describes injecting liquid oxygen into the divergent section of a gas-core nuclear thermal rocket’s nozzle to burn supersonically with the hydrogen exhaust, borrowing from scramjet design.

Weight: low. Six pages, a concept description without testing, in a low-profile journal. The underlying LOX-augmented NTR idea comes from earlier NASA-funded work.

Where this came from

• r/obscurePDFs post, May 2021 — “Liquid Oxygen Augmented Gas Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket”. Routing record: The obscurePDFs Subreddit

6 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.