A highly controllable rocket system with the ability to manoeuvre planetary landers on future space missions has been demonstrated by US engineers.
Project partners Advanced Technology Associates (ATA) and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have developed a proposed solid-fuel propellant system designed to offer the precision control needed to land NASA's Mars Science Laboratory.
Minneapolis-based ATK is working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to develop propellants for a low-cost lightweight solid-propellant control system that could be used in payload descent and spacecraft cruise phases for planetary exploration missions.
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