We developed a ground effects, sea skimming missile that used flexible tractor
nozzles for TVC along those lines for DARPA/ONR. USPTO 8,939,084 (others
pending). It turns into a super-cavitating torpedo for the end game and
attaches itself to the hull of the target, then awaits instructions. It’s quite
evil actually and the size of a Type A sonobuoy. The motor demonstrated 40
second action times.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
President/CEO
Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
http://www.cesaronitech.com/
(941) 360-3100 x101 Sarasota
(905) 887-2370 x222 Toronto
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From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Henry Vanderbilt
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:15 PM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: some interesting developments
The forward nozzles are to help package things so the rocket tail clears the
ground when the F-15 rotates for takeoff, as I understand it.
ALASA used a similar configuration, until they cancelled it because the
nitrous-acetylene monopropellant wasn't stable (as discussed voluminously here
a few weeks back.) (The reason they wanted a high-energy monoprop seems clear;
ALASA was to have lifted as much as
100 pounds within the same overall size limits imposed by the F-15 carrier,
considerably more than the LOX-kero biprop SALVO's single 3u
cubesat.)
I'd be skeptical about the article's speculation that SALVO is already in
service, both because that seems faster development than likely, and because
the SALVO payload seems more appropriate to a proof-of-concept demonstrator
than to any useful operational mission.
On 12/30/2015 3:40 PM, Thomas McNeill wrote:
Interesting rocket. The engines are forward and it appears to drop
the tank below it. Two stages and one set of engines.
"Note four rocket engine nozzles that power both the first and then
second stage after first stage propellant tank separates. Photo Credit
DARPA."
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:33 PM, <qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
< <mailto:qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mailto:qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone saw this but I found it while researching
the Northrop TR108 peroxide motor.
What's rather interesting that Ventions, the Company running
this for DARPA and NASA, parallels a lot of what we have
been talking here on Arocket.
<http://www.americaspace.com/?p=83211>
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=83211
Robert