1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Combustion Control of solid Rocket Motors by Sublimates
| Project/Area Number |
05555261
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Aerospace engineering
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
TACHIBANA Takeshi Kyushu Inst.Tech.Assoc.Prof, 工学部, 助教授 (50179719)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KIMURA Itsuro Tokai Univ.Aero.Prof., 工学部, 教授 (20010697)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Keywords | Solid Propellants / Arc-jet / Combustion control / Rocket / Sublimates |
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| Research Abstract |
A new type of thruster for attitude control, orbit change or raising etc. in space has been developed and tested. It utilizes solid propellant, and therfore higher thrust level than that of ordinary electrical thrusters will be expected. The combustion control was feasible with combination of nonselfcombustible composite propellants and DC arc discharges : with the help of heated sublimation gases produced by DC arc dischrges along sublimate solid, the main propellants become combustible. Experiments conducted so far showed best performance was achieved in the case with composite propellants including oximides as the main charge and PCTFE as the pilot charge and the thrust and specific impulse were 0.4-1.5N and 250-300s, respectively.
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