ROCKET PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY-Volume 1 by Carton, D. S., W. R. Maxwell and D. Burden (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ROCKET PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY-Volume 1

by Carton, D. S., W. R. Maxwell and D. Burden (eds)

New York, 1961: Plenum Press, Inc., 374 pages, $12.50

This book is the Proceedings of the Rocket Propulsion Symposium held in Cranfield, England by the College of Aeronautics, the British Interplanetary Society, and the Royal Aeronautical Society (January 1961). Papers deal largely with controllability and reliability in rocket engines, investigating such subjects as dual thrust and thrust axis control with solid propellant rocket motors, problems met in starting and stopping liquid propellant engines, and special difficulties arising with large engines using liquid oxygen. The Spectre variable thrust engine and the control problems associated with the Black Knight high-altitude research vehicle and its propulsion system are described. Reliability in rocket engines is considered in papers on the measurement and interpretation of reliability, aspects of design and development philosophies, the solid propellant motor, charge inspection, and metallurgical aspects of high strength motor cases. Other papers describe new experimental and test techniques such as instrumentation techniques, pump efficiency measurement, solid propellant internal ballistics, packaged liquid propellants, and hydrogen as a propellant.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III