GPRE75Test102812 Home Company Project Solutions Facilities Contact CPM Main Rocket Engine Test 10.28.12 GPRE 7.5KNTA Main Rocket Engine Test (October 28, 2012). Luminous desert... Launch Manifest Lunar Missions Contact MOJAVE-10.28.2012---On a calm clear high-desert October evening, Interorbital Systems NEPTUNE rocket series' main engine roared to life in its... first hot-firing test. The engine, the IOS GPRE 7.5KNTA (General Purpose Rocket Engine; 7,500lb-thrust; Nitric Acid; Turpentine; Ablative cooling), blasted a 22-foot (6.71-meter...

modular rockets--as in the NEPTUNE 7 (N7), a seven-module orbital rocket. IOS rocket engines are the first US rocket engines utilizing storable high-density nitric acid and turpentine.... Interorbital successfully test fires its CPM thruster rocket engine! Copyright 2013 Interorbital Systems Team Satellite Kits Updates Media Facebook LinkedIn Order | | | | | | ...CPM_Thruster_Test_1 Home Company Project Solutions Facilities Contact CPM Thruster Test: 05.27.12 IOS GPRE 0.75KNTA On/Off Thruster Engine Test (May 27, 2012) Home Satellite Kits...

modular rockets--as in the NEPTUNE 7 (N7), a seven-module orbital rocket. IOS rocket engines are the first US rocket engines utilizing storable high-density nitric acid and turpentine.... Interorbital successfully test fires its CPM vernier rocket engine! Copyright 2013 Interorbital Systems Team Satellite Kits About Solutions Facilities Contact Order | | | | | | ...CPM_Thruster_Test_2 Home Company Project Solutions Facilities Contact CPM Thruster Test: 05.27.12 IOS GPRE 0.75KNTA On/Off Thruster Engine Test (May 27, 2012) Home Satellite Kits...

test fires its CPM vernier rocket engine! MOJAVE-05.27.2012 Interorbital successfully test fires its CPM vernier rocket engine! MOJAVE-05.27.2012---Two of these small vernier rocket... engines provide roll control for a stand-alone Common Propulsion Module (CPM) stage. CPMs are the basic building blocks for IOS' multi-stage bundled modular rockets...--as in the NEPTUNE 5 (N5), a five-module orbital rocket. IOS rocket engines are the first US rocket engines utilizing storable high-density nitric acid and turpentine as propellants. In addition...

standard Common Propulsion Module is composed of two propellant tanks, a single throttleable, ablatively-cooled rocket engine, a valve unit, a gimbal system, and a controller.... Construction costs are kept low using Minimum-Cost- Design rules, including use of off-the-shelf components and assembly-line/mass-production methodology. Liquid Rocket Engines... and Propellants A single, throttleable liquid rocket engine powers each CPM. Thrusts will vary between 7,500 and 15,000 pounds. When the CPMs are clustered in multiples of two or more...