Controllable solid rocket motor

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Controllable solid rocket motor

Post by Viv » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:44 pm

I noticed this in the news today and thought to myself that its probably going to have a huge impact in the future of commercial rocketry

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Aer ... s_999.html

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controllable solid rocket

Post by heada » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:30 pm

Looks like they took the thrust vectoring nozzles from the newer jets and applied the same principal to solid rocket motors. Very interesting and the possibilities are staggering.

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