Goddard Combustion and Propulsion Research Facility
Goddard Combustion and Propulsion Research Facility | 4,280 sq. ft.
Focus
- Small rocket development using Green Propellants
- Fundamental researh in combustion of methane and oxygen
- Reactive materials testing
Capabilities
- Bunker and Control Room
- Projectile Proof | 600ft2 Test Area | Camera Accessible |
- Remote Control Operation
- Cryogenic Methane & Oxygen Delivery System
- Multi-Fuel Manifolds & Feed Systems for Liquid & Gaseous Fuels
- New Micro-Propulsion Vacuum Chamber 30” x 36” cylindrical vacuum chamber with 20 interchangeable ports for diagnostics and power
- 25 CFM Edwards XDS35i dry scroll pump for base pressures down to 10^-3 Torr
- 820 L/s Ebara EBT800 turbopump for base pressures down to 10^-6 Torr
- High Speed Imaging
- Flame Studies Capability
- Adaptable Exhaust System
- Laser ignition facility equipped with a CO2 laser & Hot-wire Ignition facility
- Laser diffraction particle size analyzer (Microtrac Bluewave)
- Laser flash apparatus (Netzsch LFA 457 MicroFlash)
- Electrical property analyzer (Netzsch SBA 458 Nemesis)
- Thermogravimetric analyzer (Netzsch TGA 209 F1 Iris)
- Differential scanning calorimeter (Netzsch DSC 404 F1 Pegasus)
- High-pressure differential scanning calorimeter (Netzsch DSC 204 HP Phoenix)
- Mass spectrometer (Netzsch QMS 403 D Aeolos, Netzsch TGA/DSC-MS coupling)
- Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (Bruker Tensor II, Netzsch TGA/DSC-FTIR coupling)
- Oxygen bomb calorimeter (Parr 6220)
- Semimicro calorimeter (Parr 6725)
