The increasing demand for a low-cost, reliable way to launch commercial payloads to low- Earth orbit has led to the need for inexpensive, expendable propulsion systems for new launch vehicles. This, in turn, has renewed interest in less complex, uncooled rocket engines that have combustion chambers and exhaust nozzles fabricated from ablative materials. A number of aerospace propulsion system manufacturers have utilized NASA Lewis Research Center's test facilities with a high degree of success to evaluate candidate materials for application to new propulsion devices.
Ablative Material Testing at Lewis Rocket Lab
1997-03-01
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Ablative Material Testing at Lewis Rocket Lab
NTIS | 1997
Better ablative material for the protection of rocket assemblies
Tema Archive | 2001