Questions tagged [hybrid-rocket]

Rocket engines which consist of a solid propellant and a liquid or gaseous oxidizer.

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Have there been any orbital access provided by hybrid rockets?

As far as I know, Hybrid rocketry is limited to suborbital flights and amateur rocketry. I would like to know if there have been any rockets that made it into orbit, and what was the highest altitude a hybrid rocket has made it to? This company is…
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How would a hybrid rocket work?

How does a solid fuel liquid oxidizer hybrid rocket work? How do they throttle them up and down? Virgin Galactic plans to use a hybrid engine, and I was also wondering how they were planning to store them together.
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Isp of LOX-based hybrid rocket engines

Can anyone help to find data or book on Isp for hybrid rocket engines using LOX as oxidizer? I am interested to know Isp for LOX combinations with carbon, Al+HTPB, parafin, sugar and others.
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