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MTV Motor

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Status: Out of production. Date: 2001-2004.

In 1998, SpaceDev, Inc., of Poway, California, acquired exclusive rights to the intellectual property of the American Rocket Company, which had developed hybrid rocket motor systems in the 1980s. SpaceDev was currently developing a series of small hybrid motors, using HTPB rubber or polymethyl methacrylate (Plexiglas) as solid fuel and storable nitrous oxide as a gaseous oxidizer. SpaceDev completed tests in August 2001 of a small hybrid rocket motor that was designed for use in the company's Maneuver and Transfer Vehicle, an upper stage that can move small spacecraft, such as secondary payloads on larger launch vehicles, from GTO, LEO or GEO. In May 2002, the AFRL awarded SpaceDev a contract to develop a hybrid propulsion module to deploy small payloads from the Space Shuttle.

Propellant Formulation: N2O/HTPB.