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=== Common === Common hypergolic propellant combinations include:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.braeunig.us/space/propel.htm |title=ROCKET PROPELLANTS |website=braeunig.us}}</ref> * [[Aerozine 50]] + [[nitrogen tetroxide]] (NTO) is widely used in historical American rockets, including the Titan II and all engines in the [[Apollo Lunar Module]]. Aerozine 50 is a mixture of 50% UDMH and 50% straight hydrazine (N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>).<ref name="Ignition"/>{{rp|45}} * Monomethylhydrazine (MMH) + NTO is used in smaller engines and reaction control thrusters: [[Apollo command and service module]] [[Reaction_control_system|RCS]],<ref>{{cite book |date=December 1971 |title=Apollo 11 Mission Report - Performance of the Command and Service Module Reaction Control System |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720017210/downloads/19720017210.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712145711/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720017210/downloads/19720017210.pdf |archive-date=12 July 2022 |publisher=NASA - Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |pages= 4,8 }}</ref> Space Shuttle [[Orbital Maneuvering System|OMS]] and [[Reaction_control_system|RCS]];<ref>{{cite book |last=T.A. |first=Heppenheimer |date=2002 |title=''Development of the Shuttle, 1972β1981 - Volume 2.'' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqhqBgAAQBAJ |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |page= <!-- or pages= --> |isbn=1-58834-009-0 }}</ref> [[Ariane 5]] EPS;<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/ariane5.html#config | archive-url =https://archive.today/20130202175747/http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/ariane5.html#config | url-status =usurped | archive-date =February 2, 2013 | title=Space Launch Report: Ariane 5 Data Sheet}}</ref> [[Draco (rocket engine)|Draco]] thrusters used by the [[SpaceX Dragon]] spacecraft.<ref name=sxu20071210>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacex.com/updates_archive.php?page=121007 |title=SpaceX Updates|publisher=[[SpaceX]] |date=2007-12-10 |access-date=2010-02-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104061453/http://www.spacex.com/updates_archive.php?page=121007 |archive-date=January 4, 2011 }}</ref> * [[Triethylborane]]/[[triethylaluminium]] (TEA-TEB) + [[liquid oxygen]] is used during the ignition process of some rocket engines that use liquid oxygen, used by the [[Merlin (rocket engine family)|SpaceX Merlin Engine Family]] and [[Rocketdyne F-1]]. * UDMH + NTO is frequently used by [[Roscosmos]], such as in the [[Proton (rocket family)]], and supplied by them to France for the Ariane 1 first and second stages (replaced with [[UH 25]]) and [[Indian Space Research Organisation|ISRO]] rockets using [[Vikas (rocket engine)|Vikas engine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2001/12/03/stories/2001120300481300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323164318/http://www.hindu.com/2001/12/03/stories/2001120300481300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-03-23|title=ISRO tests Vikas engine|date=2014-03-23|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref>
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