Posted on 12/23/2009 9:13:19 PM PST by This_far
Butte-Silver Bow County will erect a permanent building in its TIFID for the testing of rocket engines.
Kristen Rosa, administrator of the Tax Increment Finance Industrial District, said that the steel-sided structure could be in operation by next spring.
"It will help them be able to test bigger and bigger rocket engines," Rosa said.
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Space Propulsion Group Inc., a Stanford University-affiliated company, visited Butte a number of times last year to test fuels used in hybrid rockets. The approximately eight-second tests were done on the smaller 11-inch models, but thanks to the new building companies will be able to test larger prototypes. The results of the test are studied and companies attempt to perfect the mixture of the fuels used to power their engines.
(Excerpt) Read more at mtstandard.com ...
Short background: the facilities currently in use from, I believe Arizona (?) were to be scrapped, the parties involved saw the potential, applied for/saved them and brought them to Butte. Reports are positive as to the results and potential both for the community and those using it.
Grooviness.
No “Stimulus” funds used?.. Hmmm.. No left-wing union workers there?
PLENTY of left wing or at minimum, unions there.
(one union just picketed/settled with another union business...result: business goes on, but someone paid/signed up)
Regardless, there has been no report of Stimulus Funds (which I regard as Federal).
I’m more impressed with the ongoing rocket research and advancement. There was a minority who protested due to noise, so far, no complaints have been reported.
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