Anyone ever consider possibility of creating and flying a spacecraft using solid fuel rocket?
Solids have ben used in manned flight - as boosters (SRB) in Space Shuttle
and as auxiliaries (launch escape, retro rockets) in early space program
Solids have advantage of being cheap with few or no moving parts Solids
can be built very large (10 ft diameter) 3 million Lbs thrust
Problems with solids is have much lower ISP than liquids, lower controlability
(once ignited can not be shut down and not throttleable like liquids),
high acceleration (High G loads) and low burn times
Would it be fesible to use a home brew fuel like GALCIT (Potassium perchlorate oxidizer Asphalt & oil fuel) as used in the JATO
What would be size limit of using Galcit fuel ??
Solids have ben used in manned flight - as boosters (SRB) in Space Shuttle
and as auxiliaries (launch escape, retro rockets) in early space program
Solids have advantage of being cheap with few or no moving parts Solids
can be built very large (10 ft diameter) 3 million Lbs thrust
Problems with solids is have much lower ISP than liquids, lower controlability
(once ignited can not be shut down and not throttleable like liquids),
high acceleration (High G loads) and low burn times
Would it be fesible to use a home brew fuel like GALCIT (Potassium perchlorate oxidizer Asphalt & oil fuel) as used in the JATO
What would be size limit of using Galcit fuel ??