Comment Re:Grateful for the Rememberance (Score 1) 72
The 250k motor that was fired last friday built on the old AMROC designs. The biggest difference was the use of a patented hybrid staged combustion head end design. Here is a quote from the NASA Stennis Space Center press release:
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HybridGuy"This particular hybrid motor featured new technologies including a revolutionary new head-end combustion approach and ignition system designed by Lockheed Martin Michoud Space Systems in New Orleans."
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