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The other advantage is this is a solid rocket that can shut be turned off.

That’s usually the major drawback to solid rockets.

(Apologies if that’s obvious)




Weirdly there are solid fuel rockets that can be turned on and off.

Electric solid propellants (ESPs) is the term apparently. I saw youtube video where some guy was fooling around with the some brand or another of this type.

see https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190030421/downloads/20...


here's the video of ESP's that I saw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRyv7ARb5M




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