Is there a way to spawn a particle system

I am trying to create a particle system to represent flames on a rocket ship when moved. Is there a way to accomplish this? I would like to spawn the system on a keystroke, I would like to use nodes in that I really don;t know code but at this point would accept any help I can get.

Thanks

There were some recent fixes on this, spawn and remove object with particles example at the ticket below could be helpful: