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![Kevin Lohner shows onlookers a “hybrid” rocket engine demonstration unit. At the 50th-anniverary celebration of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Kevin Lohner, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, showed onlookers a “hybrid” rocket engine demonstration unit in action.](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20151211033644im_/http://library.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/blog/public/blog/image/8.13056.512.080508-031.jpg?itok=Khco4dAV)
Prof. Brian Cantwell has a new IEEE Spectrum feature article reporting on the work of Stanford University researchers who are improving hybrid rockets. These hybrids are designed to deliver a huge amount of thrust while avoiding the most dangerous drawback of liquid-fueled and solid-propellant rockets—uncontrolled combustion and explosion.
Read the full article in IEEE Spectrum.
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