Electrically-assisted, High Performance Extinguishable Solid Propellant for Advanced Thrust Control Motors

Physical Sciences Inc. proposes to develop and scale up process for a unique, electrically-assisted, insensitive munition compliant, self-extinguishable, high performance controllable solid propellant for advanced thrust control motors. This novel propellant formulation has a predicted specific impulse and density specific impulse that exceed the performance of state-of-the-art ionic propellants. The solid propellant enables the development of high performance, storable propulsion systems while simultaneously reducing handling operations as compared to state-of-art electrochemically assisted ionic propellants. In Phase II, we will build on the Phase I success to develop a scalable mixing process that is affordable and easy to implement at the industrial scale. We will characterize the efficacy of the propellant as a function of quantity produced to ensure processing, combustion, IM, and motor performance reliability. The results generated in Phase II will ensure realistic system level design architecture of the DACS propulsion system within operational mission requirements for implementation in Phase III.