As the still-to-be-announced date of the first commercial flight of Virgin Galactic’sSpaceShipTwo approaches, more and more of the technology involved is getting nailed down. A case in point is the company's announcement that it has decided which fuel will be used in the first passenger-carrying flights of the suborbital spacecraft. The solid fuel grains that will fuel the world’s largest operational hybrid rocket will be a thermoset plastic similar to nylon... Continue Reading SpaceShipTwo to by fueled by thermoset plastic similar to nylon
Section: Space
Tags: Commercial, Fuel, Hybrid, Motor, Plastic, Rocket, Spacecraft, Spaceport America,SpaceShipTwo, Test Flights, Virgin Galactic
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