Researchers and small companies have been investigating and developing new solid rocket motor propellant ingredients with renewed vigor. Lithium-aluminum alloy is an ingredient of particular interest, but most of the advertisement about its benefits are focused on defense tactical rocket applications. This paper develops a framework to evaluate this and other propellants against standard aluminized composite propellant for mass-limited missions like many NASA in-space applications. It shows a way to estimate density’s effect with an exponent less than 1 depending on mission and technology parameters, and an algorithm for directly calculating delta-velocity or payload performance improvement.


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    Title :

    New Solid Propellant Additives: Evaluation for NASA Mission Use Cases


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2024


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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