Develop and Demonstrate a Hybrid Powered Missile Motor

Technanogy Space proposes to study, design, manufacture and test several hybrid rocket motor grains at the 100 to 300 lb thrust level, loaded with 40 nano-meter sized constituents with the express objective to push hybrid fuel regression rate by at leastan order of magnitude over the current state of the art. Technanogy Space further intends to couple the data obtained from these motor tests with a missile system model to build a trajectory simulation environment to optimize the propellant choices andburn duty cycle. A short duration, high thrust motor firing will be made to verify the scalability of the results. Such an advance would make nano-propellant enhanced hybrid rocket motors suitable for tactical use and would exceed the performance possiblefrom solid rocket motors in the same application.A successful demonstration of high performance nano-enhanced hybrid rocket motors has sweeping ramifications for the propulsion industry. As hybrid propulsion is recognized to have the lowest installed costper pound of thrust of any propulsion system, this new technology may be cost effectively introduced into tactical missiles, sounding rockets, booster stages, upper stages and on-orbit maneuvering vehicles for even greater performance gains.