turbo pump

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turbo pump

a turbine powered pump

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The turbo pump system uses an exhaust gas generator to power the pump and it works up to 3,000 psi and the higher pressure gives higher performance.

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The turbo pump is mounted to a custom isolation table for direct access to the AFM, and the roughing pump can be remotely positioned to ensure no vibrational interference during imaging.

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Part of the plating inside pumps in the first-stage engine also came off, with four fragments found in the liquid oxygen turbo pump. The plating was not properly attached, the officials said.