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gary
13-11-2014, 02:58 PM
Brian J. Cantwell, a professor in Stanford University's department of
aeronautics and astronautics, has an article at the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Magazine web site
about he and his colleagues efforts to design safer rocket engines using
a liquid/solid hybrid approach where they are using paraffin wax as
the solid component.



Full article here :-

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/wax-fuel-gives-hybrid-rockets-more-oomph

Gary Kopff
IEEE Member 37 years

mswhin63
13-11-2014, 06:25 PM
Nice article Gary, thanks. Looks impressive solution.

jenchris
13-02-2015, 06:40 PM
Rocket engines measured in candela... whatever next?