Author Topic: Project Swanson, Titusville (Read 2651 times)

edkyle99 · « **on:** 09/21/2016 03:22 pm »

Story about a small solid motor propellant company wanting to set up shop at TICO, Titusville, FL. The "mysterious" deal is named "Project Swanson". I can think of only a few non-US makers of solid motor propellant.

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2016/09/20/rocket-propellant-manufacturer-eyes-tiusville/90762834/

- Ed Kyle

Jim · « **Reply #1 on:** 09/21/2016 04:40 pm »

Quote from: Prober on 09/21/2016 04:39 pm

Quote from: edkyle99 on 09/21/2016 03:22 pm
Story about a small solid motor propellant company wanting to set up shop at TICO, Titusville, FL. The "mysterious" deal is named "Project Swanson". I can think of only a few non-US makers of solid motor propellant.

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2016/09/20/rocket-propellant-manufacturer-eyes-tiusville/90762834/

- Ed Kyle
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Piece_by_piece_NASA_is_3_D_printing_a_rocket_engine_999.html

quick google.....

How does a liquid engine testing at Marshall play into this?

Jim · « **Reply #2 on:** 09/21/2016 04:51 pm »

Quote from: Prober on 09/21/2016 04:41 pm

Quote from: Jim on 09/21/2016 04:40 pm
Quote from: Prober on 09/21/2016 04:39 pm
Quote from: edkyle99 on 09/21/2016 03:22 pm
Story about a small solid motor propellant company wanting to set up shop at TICO, Titusville, FL. The "mysterious" deal is named "Project Swanson". I can think of only a few non-US makers of solid motor propellant.

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2016/09/20/rocket-propellant-manufacturer-eyes-tiusville/90762834/

- Ed Kyle
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Piece_by_piece_NASA_is_3_D_printing_a_rocket_engine_999.html

quick google.....

How does a liquid engine testing at Marshall play into this?
look lower Swanson School of Engineering ?[/size]

Still unrelated

edkyle99 · « **Reply #3 on:** 09/21/2016 10:08 pm »

NAMMO is one guess. They've done missile motors for AMRAAM, Sparrow, and the like, as well as Ariane 5 booster separation motors. Norwegian/Finnish company. https://www.nammo.com/

RAFAEL is another guess. Makes the AUS-51 Shavit third stage motor for Ofeq satellite launches.
http://www.rafael.co.il/Marketing/500-en/Marketing.aspx

- Ed Kyle

B787_300 · « **Reply #4 on:** 10/04/2016 04:34 am »

Some other articles refference a Canadian company. I think it might be Cesaroni Technologies opening a US Branch.

See http://floridapolitics.com/archives/tag/project-swanson for the Canadian reference. Really narrows the field down.