SpaceDev chosen to provide hybrid rocket for SpaceShipOne

SpaceDev of Poway, Calif., has been chosen to supply the major operating components for the hybrid rocket motor that will power Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne manned spacecraft, SpaceDev announced Sept. 19. The hybrid motor will use tire rubber and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as propellants. Both...

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