Our commitment
Space economy is growing and has an environmental footprint which is not limited to the plume we see during launches.
Environment is also where workers operate, where wastes are disposed, where launcher stages fall back to ground, where spacecrafts objects are abandoned after their decommissioning, and much more. There are still wide knowledge gaps.
Here at the SPLab we are committed to understanding how propulsion and energetic materials can be better.
- Better for perfomance
- Better for people
- Better for the environment.
Selected reference papers
- Evaluating New Liquid Storable Bipropellants: Safety and Performance Assessments, Aerospace 2022, 9(10), 561
- Monoethanolamine-Based Fuels Hypergolic with Rocket-Grade Hydrogen Peroxide, Aerospace 2024, 11(4), 309
- Novel Strategies for HTP Decomposition: Characterization of 3D-printed Catalysts, Scitech 2024
- A new strategy for the reinforcement of paraffin-based fuels based on cellular structures: The armored grain – Ballistic characterization, Acta Astronautica, Volume 206, May 2023, Pages 284-298
- Testing Advanced Green Fuels in a Vortex Hybrid Rocket Engine, Scitech 2024
- Test Activities on Hybrid Rocket Engines: Combustion Analyses and Green Storable Oxidizers – A Short Review, Aerospace, Aerospace 2023, 10(7), 572
- Thermite-for-Demise (T4D): Experimental analysis of heat transfer principles and preliminary sizing of an application, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 220, March 2024, 124957
- Thermite-for-demise (T4D): Experiments and numerical modelling on ball-bearing unit mock-ups containing thermite in an arc-heated wind tunnel, Acta Astronautica, Volume 223, October 2024, Pages 550-576