TY - GEN
T1 - Development of high-burning-rate hybrid-rocket-fuel flight demonstrators
AU - Karabeyoglu, M. Arif
AU - Zilliac, Greg
AU - Castellucci, Paul
AU - Urbanczyk, Paul
AU - Stevens, Jose
AU - Inalhan, Gohkan
AU - Cantwell, Brian J.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The Stanford Sounding Rocket Program was established to demonstrate, promote and grow a new hybrid fuel technology, namely, liquefying hybrids. To this end, three sounding rockets in various stages of development are described. The motivation for this program is that at laboratory scale and in scale-up ground tests, a paraffin-based hydrocarbon fuel has shown great promise in that it burns three to five times faster than conventional hybrid fuels. The impact of this high regression rate fuel is that it is now possible to design safe, compact, high performance hybrid rockets that are competitive with liquid and solid rockets in a variety of applications.
AB - The Stanford Sounding Rocket Program was established to demonstrate, promote and grow a new hybrid fuel technology, namely, liquefying hybrids. To this end, three sounding rockets in various stages of development are described. The motivation for this program is that at laboratory scale and in scale-up ground tests, a paraffin-based hydrocarbon fuel has shown great promise in that it burns three to five times faster than conventional hybrid fuels. The impact of this high regression rate fuel is that it is now possible to design safe, compact, high performance hybrid rockets that are competitive with liquid and solid rockets in a variety of applications.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84897586226
SN - 9781624100987
T3 - 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
BT - 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit
T2 - 39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit 2003
Y2 - 20 July 2003 through 23 July 2003
ER -