Development Of A Solid Rocket Motor With Composite Casing For DARE
- Paper number
IAC-07-C4.I.03
- Author
Mr. Mark Uitendaal, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands
- Coauthor
Mr. Steven Engelen, Technical University of Delft (TUDelft), The Netherlands
- Year
2007
- Abstract
The Solid Rocket Motors currently in use by DARE are made of steel. The empty casing weight is high in comparison with commercial products and products in the industry. To lower the empty weight of the casing and to boost performance of Solid Rocket Motors in use by DARE, a new project is started to do research in composite rocket casings. The first stage of this research project, to construct a light, highly reliable test-motor, is completed. This resulted in the 70 mm CTM (Composite Test Motor), a highly reliable solid rocket motor with a total impulse of ±2300 Ns. A derivative of this motor will propel the DARE Cansat launcher. The burnout-weight of this motor is much lower than our current steel casing variant, which will result in a dramatic apogee altitude gain or payload increment. The motorcasing will have a 50This BigBoy CC motor will be the booster motor for our 15 km altitude shot codenamed project “Stratos” which is the frontrunner for very high altitude projects like DEIMOS. The development of the composite casing technology will be highly beneficial for project Cansat and project Stratos.
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