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17 October 2007 Transpiration Cooled Thrust Chamber Hot Fire
Testing
Success
WASK
Engineering,
Inc. announces successful completion of its NASA Phase I SBIR
contract for
NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), culminating in a series of six hot
fire tests
of their transpiration cooled combustion chamber ending on 22 August
2007. The
transpiration cooled chamber was designed, fabricated and hot fire
tested in
seven months starting on 19 January 2007. The successful Phase I
program has
resulted in the award of a Phase II SBIR from NASA JSC for further
development
of this promising technology. “All in all, I consider this effort a
hands-down
success. WASK was able to design and fabricate hardware, outfit a test
facility, and generate valuable test data for… [an amount that] will
only buy a
cost/schedule estimate from our usual vendors, this performance is
extraordinary,” Sam Russell, NASA JSC.
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