Stage 1 Propellant, Surveillance Report, Glacial Acrylic Acid, Motors GAA-001 and GAA-002 TP-H1011.

Abstract

Thiokol Minuteman First Stage Propellant uses acrylic acid to produce the HB polymer used as the binder. The original supplier of acrylic acid stopped production and Thiokol then obtained acrylic acid produced by the Taft, Louisiana Plant of Union Carbide Company. To assure that this new source of supply was a satisfactory replacement, Thiokol ran qualifications testing on the new material and found it satisfactory. In the Thiokol program two motors were cast in 1971 and propellant from the mixes were cast into cartons for a ten year test program. This propellant was then transferred to this laboratory and testing on a yearly basis was started in 1975. From an analysis of the data the propellant's physical properties are satisfactory and the stability, with respect to age, is satisfactory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA091707

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  • John A. Thompson

Organizations

  • Ogden Air Logistics Complex

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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Acrylic Acid
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Corporations
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
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  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Louisiana
  • Materials
  • Physical Properties
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surveillance
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • West Virginia

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