| Aerospike 
                        Development Program 
 Aerospike nozzles are designed to be altitude compensating 
                        and self adjust the expansion ratio making them extremely 
                        useful for ground-launched sounding rockets. This feature 
                        is specifically useful for long burn hybrid rocket applications. 
                        Several design verification tests have occurred using 
                        short burn solid propellants, with the goal of applying 
                        the technology to the long burn Hybrid motors.
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