A regeneratively cooled thrust chamber for the Fastrac engine

This paper presents the development of a low-cost, regeneratively-cooled thrust chamber for the Fastrac engine. The chamber xsas fabricated t,sing hydraformed copper tubing to form the cool:int jacket and wrapped with a fiber reinforced polymer cc:nmosue :natcrlai to form a structural iackct, i'he H/IUSt cl/al/1Der Jcsign and fabrication approach was based uplm .qpacc America, Inc.'s 12,000 Ib regenerativeJy-cooicd LOX/kerosene rocket cnmnc. Fabrication pper tubes. .\ rceenerativcl',-coolcd rcusat_lc lhrl.lSl _;lalnber c:An J?ellCli[ [he t:,ilg[laC c_'ll_lllC !'J-ogr_.llll pv .:Jlowlng illore clticient (c_,t alld schedule) leSllll,2. .',. :-t-t3ol-oI-ci)ncept test articic h:.IS i]cell [Li['_ric;ttc_-i :tIttl ', Jil bc tcstcd at Nlarshatl Space t-iieht Center m mc iatc Summer or Fall of 2000.