Stuart's Rocket Motor Development Pages

Just a few pages here to show some of my motor development projects. Everything I do is based on Sugar Propellants but most also will work for any other type of propellant. The work to date falls into the following categories:

Little Stuff: 1/2 inch reusable aluminum motors made on a drill press

Bigger Stuff: 38mm motors using Aerotech hardware and custom hardware

Biggest Stuff: 76mm sugar motors with custom hardware

TRA Stuff: Full Proposal to TRA BOD to include Sugar Propellants in the EX program

Interesting Stuff: Places on the web that I have found helpful!

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Little Stuff

	1/2 Inch Aluminum Motors Original design of the 1/2 inch reusable aluminum motor. All of the parts are "turned" on my drill press.
	Rolling Your Own Technique for making fuel grains by rolling them out and cutting to length. These then work in the above motor
	Motor with Delay and Charge My latest motor using the above techniques. Separate chamber for delay element and charge.
	Nozzle With Graphite Insert Latest nozzle design for "bigger" motors (B-E) with a graphite insert.
	Making Em Step by step directions to make them for yourself

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Bigger Stuff

	Melt/Cast Grain Process Making sugar propellant grains for 38mm Aerotech hardware
	Assembling Motors Assembling the motors in 38mm Aerotech hardware and static test results
	Graphite Nozzles Graphite Nozzles for 38mm Aerotech motors can be turned with a drill press!
	Flight Testing Flight test images/video and accelerometer/altimeter data
	38mm Custom Hardware Hurray! I got a lathe! So I made a motor with a stainless steel nozzle insert.

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Biggest Stuff

76mm Custom Hardware Scaling things up a bit...

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TRA Stuff

Download a PDF of the proposal approved by TRA for Sugar Propellants
Download the Flight Report from the demonstration launch
View the video of 1/4 Patriot Demonstration Flight

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