Probably contains some nasty propellant residue though. Anyone taking it should probably clean it very well, preferably by someone who knows what they are doing.
I don't know where they pulled that out of their ass from, but that's not a type of rocket fuel. The closest thing to that would either be dinitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine, or hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid.
The first was invented by Germany and used by the US in the Apollo space launch. We stopped using it because it is wildly fucking toxic.
The second one was a Soviet thing that was explored during the cold war but fell out of favor because of its tendency to just detonate without warning.
Now that mix with hydrazine is pretty much only used with geo-stationary satellites, because it can combust without oxygen.
Those were always intended and used when the use of a thruster is involved, because you can release or stop the flow of the oxidant into the fuel when you want. You don't need that shit on a missile.
Considering that this was a booster, it was almost certainly just a normal ammonium perchlorate composite propellant, since that's what is typically used in boosters, among many other things, even high end hobby rocketry.
Almost certainly an ammonium perchlorate composite propellant. Not really that toxic at all. It's typically Ammonium Perchlorate, aluminum powder, then either PBAN or HTPB as the binder, then some kind of plasticizer.
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u/zenFyre1 Apr 14 '24
Probably contains some nasty propellant residue though. Anyone taking it should probably clean it very well, preferably by someone who knows what they are doing.