XCor's New Igniter (Its Cute!)

04/23/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

One of the interesting things at Space Access '04 is XCor's new 'pocket' igniter. It operates with various inputs but typically its GOX and kerosene or alcohol. This particular unit has over 1000 starts with no detectable erosion. This is what the target that all of the arocket igniter projects have to get to. The nice thing is that the valves are actually built into the igniter body.