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...

software, and various rocket control system software. Roderick has been independently designing, building and testing liquid rocket engines and space launch vehicles for the past... in the areas of software development, rocket engine hardware development, and rocket systems engineering. Rod is an excellent machinist and prototypes many of the major rocket.... in Manufacturing & Design, from University of California-Los Angeles concentrated on the rotary engine; she minored in Systems & Control. Dr. Warren s M.S. in ocean engineering from...