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Software Toolkit Steadies Rockets
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Combustion instability, when oscillations from firing resonate into an explosion, is one of the biggest risks in designing a rocket engine. Tullahoma, Tennessee-based Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, with several SBIR contracts from Marshall Space Flight Center and others, built its Universal Combustion Device Stability process and toolkit based on an insight that breaks the problem into different layers and can predict how an engine will behave and why, enabling engineers at NASA and beyond to change problematic factors during the early design phase.