Composable rocket motor that can meet several needs by adjusting its thrust to be built in US
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Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have been awarded a DARPA Phase 2 contract to develop a "composable" solid rocket motor that can adjust its thrust to serve multiple missions from a single design. Traditional rocket motors are built for one purpose, but this new approach allows one motor to be reconfigured for different weapons, reducing production bottlenecks, cutting costs, and speeding up military readiness across multiple defense programs.
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