Innovative Solid Formulations for Rocket Propulsion

Rocket Propulsion Establishment

Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Technology for Sounding Rocket Development

Hybrid combustion technology has recently been employed in the sounding rocket developments to support the science experiments of academic applications and the establishment of a viable flight test platform for space components development. Due to its safety nature in material handling and combustion processes, hybrid rockets are suitable for university and research institute environments for a...

Machine Learning for Rocket Propulsion Health Monitoring

This paper describes the initial results of applying two machine-learning-based unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms, Orca and GritBot, to data from two rocket propulsion testbeds. The first testbed uses historical data from the Space Shuttle Main Engine. The second testbed uses data from an experimental rocket engine test stand located at NASA Stennis Space Center. The paper describes fou...

Rocket Propulsion Elements Seventh Edition

Parametric Diagnostics of Flight Control and Propulsion for Rocket Ascent

This paper describes a case study of model-based diagnostics system development for a space launch vehicle application. The diagnostics algorithms described in the paper can work with on-board or telemetry flight data. The key innovation is in designing a distributed diagnostics system that directly uses parametric data, such as sensors data. The computations are partitioned between the subsyst...