Hmmm - nitrous oxide and acetylene (!), "'pre-mixed' to
reduce the plumbing needed on the rocket"... seems odd
that this would even be expected to work in the first
place, since neat acetylene is already too explosive
to handle as a condensed liquid or even as a compressed
(more than slightly) gas... what were they thinking? (Were
they hoping that "diluting" it with N2O might stabilize
against that or something?
-dave w
-----Original Message-----
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Nov 30, 2015 12:51 PM
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx" <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AR] ALASA cancelled because...
The DARPA ALASA launcher appears to have been cancelled (rolled back to tech
development) because Boeing used a less stable variation on my
Poly-Acetyl-Ozone propellant technology of a decade ago and, well, ...
As Chris Carson commented a bit ago on Facebook, "Where's my Earth-Shattering
Kaboom?.." "Oh, there it is."
http://spacenews.com/darpa-airborne-launcher-effort-falters/
https://web.archive.org/web/20121109235533/http://www.retro.com/hooocch/acezone.html
George William Herbert
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