18 inch diameter HTP monopropellant motor run.
Note the nearly invisible exhaust.

Go to the bottom of this link and click on the video.
Many Bloodhound SSC links from there to explore.


18 inch diameter catalyst pack on the forklift.


18 inch diameter HTP-Hybrid motor run.


18 inch diameter HTP-Hybrid combustion chamber and nozzle.
Jerry Irvine co-designed the propulsion system.
Bigger really is better.


18 inch diameter HTP-Hybrid combustion chamber and nozzle.
This is the most efficient format hybrid on Earth now.


Here is the HTP feed tank and pressurization system. The next step is pump
fed so the efficiency, pressure, and feed rate can be greatly increased,
while also reducing combustion instability and chugging associated with
self-pressurized hybrids! In addition to being very low pollution, the system
is capable of operating in monopropellant mode with ONLY water and oxygen
as effluent when the solid fuel is expended, for exoatmospheric operations.
From the very beginning this system was designed to be throttleable and serviceable.


It's time to make a system that will cause people to move beyond the speed of expectation.

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424 kb video of Jerry discussing the initial test
conditions for a low thrust and short duration firing.

1100 kb video of Jerry discussing the combustion chamber components.

Notice:
Please sit down, turn DOWN the volume
and see something rare and cool.
6.4mb video.mov Go!

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