[AR] Re: Bipropellant solid

  • From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:24:16 -0700

I concur this could be the most significant patent in a very long time.

So is there a source of this new propellant chemical?

Monroe 

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [AR] Re: Bipropellant solid
> From: Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, October 26, 2014 8:12 pm
> To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Good finds on the patent application. Based on the correlation between
> the length of a chemical's name and its price on Sigma Aldrich, I
> wonder how much that little model rocket cost in propellant. Another
> patent says that all you have to do is oxidize 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole
> to form 3,3'-azo-1,2,4-triazole, nitrate that, and viola,
> 5,5′-dinitro-3,3′azo-1,2,4-triazole.
> 
> That is one of the most impressive patent claims I've seen in years.
> If they actually own the entire field of solid bipropellant rockets
> that will be quite a feat.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:56 PM, David W. Schultz
> <david.schultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 10/26/2014 09:11 PM, Ben Brockert wrote:
> >> Anyone know what the propellants are?
> >>
> >> http://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2014/October/10.23-rocket-design-flight-tested.phpa
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I used Google the other day to turn up a patent application:
> >
> > http://www.google.com/patents/US20140109551
> >
> >
> > --
> > David W. Schultz
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz
> > Returned for Regrooving
> >
> >
> >

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