Word: thiokol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baffles that keep the propellants from escaping before they have mixed and burned. Baffles and other improvements, says Ordahl, have boosted combustion efficiency to 90% in some U.T.C. hybrids. Aerojet-General Corp. has a different kind of baffle that is said to get 95% . The Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp. believes that good burning under variable conditions can best be had by injecting extra oxidizer near the rear of the combustion chamber or downstream from the baffles...
...firm is their faith in the advantages of solids, four large rocket companies are putting millions of their own, dollars into development-a rare gamble in the Government-nurtured aerospace industry. In addition to Lockheed, Thiokol Chemical Corp., maker of the Minuteman booster, has put $12 million into a Georgia plant to build solid-propellant engines up to 21 ft. 8 in, in diameter with 3,000,000 Ibs. of thrust. Aerojet-General Corp., maker of the Navy's Polaris booster, is doing the same near Miami. The United Technology Center of United Aircraft is building smaller solids...
...major subcontractors and some 7,200 suppliers involved in Mercury. In a report appendix it listed prime contractors as Aerospace Corp., Chrysler Corp., General Dynamics/Astronautics, General Electric Co., Burroughs Corp., B. F. Goodrich Co., McDonnell Aircraft Corp., North American Aviation, Inc., Pan American World Airways, Inc., Philco Corp., Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Western Electric...
...that require a trouble-plagued network of pumps and pipes. Fueling and firing the Titan and Atlas is an intricate business-many experts doubt that they would ever get off the pad with just 15 minutes' warning. In contrast, the Minuteman burns a solid, rubberlike fuel developed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. Once the Minuteman is fueled, it needs little maintenance, can be stored indefinitely and can be fired, from command to blastoff, in just 30 seconds...
...Thiokol Chemical Corp. was launched into aerospace by a chemist's accidental discovery that its synthetic rubber made the best solid rocket fuel. Thiokol has since branched into liquid fuel, did $172 million in sales last year...