High-pressure testing of composite solid propellant mixtures: burner facility characterization

41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Carro, Rodolphe ^a,c   Stephens, Matthew ^a,c   Arvanetes, Jason ^a,c   Powell, Andreiev ^a,c   Petersen, Eric ^a,c   Smith, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Space Launch Corporation ^*  (United States)

^c Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURN RATES; BURNING BEHAVIOR; COMPOSITE PROPELLANT; COMPOSITE SOLID PROPELLANT; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE TESTING; UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA;

FUEL ADDITIVES; MIXTURES; SOLID PROPELLANTS;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 77957850114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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