The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not your ...
Abstract: Solid rocket motors have been designed, tested, and characterized reasonably well since the 1960’s and have been used for a variety of applications, such as space shuttle boosters and ...
A test at Northrop’s Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory validated models and simulations of a new hypersonic rocket motor. Credit: Northrop Grumman A Raytheon/Northrop Grumman team tested an advanced ...
RADFORD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a $50 million contract for the continued production of MK 90 propellant grains. The MK 90 propellant grain is the propulsion ...