NASA Solid Rocket Motor Igniters (NASA Space Vehicle Design Criteria)

If you design, build, test, or use solid propellant rockets, you need this reference handbook. It's the official NASA igniter design guide, full of once highly-secret formulations, scientific data, rocketry information, and military missile lore, providing data on all types of rocket and missile igniter systems. Prepared at the NASA Lewis Research Center by scientists and engineers from Aerojet-General Corporation, Rocketdyne Solid Rocket Division (North American Rockwell Corporation), Bermite Division (Whittaker Corporation), and Thiokol Chemical Corporation, this valuable book gives the practical information you need. The contents are the result of more than 20 years of investigations by the world's largest propulsion contractors. Literally millions of dollars were spent obtaining this critical yet hard-to-find data. This is the most complete and comprehensive book ever written about the theoretical and practical engineering design of igniters and ignition systems for solid propellant rocket engines. This massive reference text covers every topic related to solid rocket motor ignition. It's thick, heavy, and packed with accurate information for the professional (and "amateur") rocket scientist, engineer, technician, and experimenter. There are detailed chemical formulations and characteristics, for black powder, pistol powder, boron/potassium nitrate (B-KNO3), Alclo, Mg/Teflon, double-base smokeless, and composite (ammonium perchlorate) pyrotechnic and propellant formulations. The book discusses compositions used in Polaris, Phoenix, Sidewinder, and many other rockets and missiles. There are also numerous exceptionally-detailed engineering drawings. If you design, build, test, or fly rockets or missiles of any size, you'll want this superb reference textbook. It's especially useful for "amateur" rocket builders -- with an abundance of data, esoteric information, and once-secret lore from the world's foremost rocket builders.