Abstract: A rocket engine has: a combustion chamber having a chamber inlet for receiving an oxidizer and a chamber outlet for expelling combustion gases in an environment outside the combustion chamber; a manifold having a manifold inlet fluidly connectable to a source of the oxidizer and a manifold outlet; a catalyst having a catalyst inlet fluidly connected to the manifold outlet and a catalyst outlet; and an injector plate having a injector inlet fluidly connected to the catalyst outlet and an injector outlet fluidly connected to the chamber inlet.

Abstract: A hybrid rocket engine system has: an oxidizer tank containing a liquid oxidizer; a rocket engine having a combustion chamber operatively connected to the oxidizer tank; a solid propellant fuel within the combustion chamber; a nozzle fluidly connected to the combustion chamber, the nozzle having a convergent section and a divergent section downstream of the convergent section; and a thrust vector control device operatively connected to the divergent section of the nozzle and operable to inject a fluid through at least one aperture defined through the divergent section for controlling a direction of a thrust generated by the rocket engine.