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Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

•  They are stable and easily storable.

•  They do not require turbo pumps or complex propellant feeding devices.

Disadvantages

•  The solid propellant motor cannot be shut down. The fuel once ignited burns till the end.

•  The propellant is temperature sensitive.

The next type of propellants we are going to study are the liquid propellants

 

 

 

 

 


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