Advantages of rapid prototyping for hybrid rocket motor fuel grain fabrication

47th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jerry Fuller, Jerome K ^a   Ehrlich, Daniel A ^a   Lu, Paul C ^a   Jansen, Ryan P ^a   Hoffman, Justin D ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE CORPORATIONS; DESIGN FREEDOM; HYBRID MOTORS; HYBRID ROCKET MOTORS; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; OXIDIZER FLOW; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PROOF OF CONCEPT;

AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; FABRICATION; PROPULSION; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROCKET ENGINES;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

EID: 84880668176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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