2003年4月9日下午格林尼治时间1点43分,Starchaser有限公司在伦敦进行了双组元液氧/煤油液体火箭发动机丘吉尔马克-2的热试车。该发动机是英国在过去30年里研制的发动机中推力最大的发动机。这次试车推力达到了2.2吨,试车时间为15秒,包括推力、温度、燃烧室压力和振动数据都被记录了下来。液体推进工程的负责人海恩斯·安东尼说:“这次试车获得了圆满成功,发动机完全按照预期工况工作。我们期 April 1, 2003 At 1:43 a.m. GMT, Starchaser Ltd. conducted a hot test run of a two-component liquid oxygen / kerosene liquid rocket engine, the Churchill Mark-2, in London. The engine is the most thrust engine in the engine developed by Britain in the past 30 years. The trial thrust reached 2.2 tons, test time is 15 seconds, including thrust, temperature, combustion chamber pressure and vibration data are recorded. Haines Anthony, head of the liquid propulsion project, said: ”The trial was a complete success and the engine worked exactly as expected.