Title

Ethanol Gel Based Fuel For Hybrid Rockets: The Golden Knight Hybrid Rocket Program At The University Of Central Florida

Abstract

Hybrid rocket propulsion, because of its safety and potential to create high performance rocket motors, offers a wonderful opportunity to students and faculty to create exciting programs involving the construction and test firing of both rocket motors and actual flight vehicles. Hybrid rockets use a liquid oxidizer, usually non-toxic nitrous oxide, and a solid fuel, such as rubber, to create a rocket engine (1). The advantage of this is that both fuel and oxidizer are safe until oxidizer is injected into the engine This opportunity is greatly helped by the existence of enthusiastic faculty and students with hands-on experience in both hybrid rocket engine design and operation, but also in construction and launch of flight vehicles with telemetry payloads at the local amateur rocketry sites. Ultimately, the evolved design of the Golden Knight rocket could replace the Super-Loki rocket system as the FSI space launch system.

Publication Date

12-10-2007

Publication Title

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volume

4

Number of Pages

3540-3549

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

36749092845 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/36749092845

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