Engineers have been busy over the last three months conducting 9 ground tests of SpaceShipTwo’s hybrid engines. At least one of these tests was of an alternative to rubber/nitrous oxide engine design that SpaceShipTwo has been using to conduct powered test flights.
RocketMotorTwo Hot-Fire Test Summaries
Via Scaled Composites
| Fire: | 37 | ||
| Date: | 07 Nov 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirty-seventh full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.
| Fire: | 36 | ||
| Date: | 24 Oct 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirty-sixth full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.
| Fire: | 35 | ||
| Date: | 14 Oct 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirty-fifth full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.
| Fire: | 34 | ||
| Date: | 03 Oct 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirty-fourth full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.
| Fire: | 33 | ||
| Date: | 12 Sep 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirty-third full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.
| Fire: | 31 | ||
| Date: | 22 Aug 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirty-first full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.
| Fire: | 30 | ||
| Date: | 06 Aug 13 | ||
Objectives:
Thirtieth full scale flight design RM2 hot-fire. Continued evaluation of all systems and components:
– Pressurization
– Valve/Injector
– Fuel formulation and geometry
– Nozzle
– Structure
– Performance
Results:
All objectives completed.