An interest in plume spectroscopy led to the development of a labscale Hybrid Rocket Facility at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). The goal of this project was to develop a reliable, consistent rocket motor testbed for the development of plume spectroscopy instrumentation. Hybrid motor technology was selected because it has proven to be safe and inexpensive to operate. The proje...

Understanding the temperature of aluminized, composite-propellant flames is critical to achieving robust rocket motor designs and developing accurate, predictive models for propellant combustion. This work presents measurements (1) CO (within flame bath gas) (2) AlO (located primarily within regions surrounding burning aluminum particles) as a function height above surface. Three ammonium-perch...