High Energy Propellants: A Continuing Bibliography

Through its Continuing Bibliography Program, NASA will prepare and distribute a series of bibliographies devoted to specific subjects in the aerospace field. The subjects have been selected because of their significant relationship to current developments in the space program, and because of a clearly established interest in them on the part of aerospace specialists. In order to assure that future information will become available in an orderly manner, each Continuing Bibliography will be updated periodically in the form of supplements which can be appended to the original edition. High Energy Propellants, NASA-SP-7002, is the first publication to appear under this program. It presents a selection of annotated references to unclassified reports and journal articles announced in Technical Publications Announcements (TPA), Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR), and International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA). Prime emphasis is given to those references which are concerned with research and development studies on solid, liquid, and hybrid propellants and oxidizers, but the bibliography also provides extensive coverage of such related topics as propellant handling and storage, combustion characteristics, toxicity, and hazards and safety measures.

Each entry in the bibliography consists of a citation and an abstract. The listing of entries is arranged in two major groups: all report literature references are contained in the first group and are subdivided according to their date of announcement in TPA and STAR; the second group includes all published literature references subdivided according to their date of announcement in IAA. All reports and articles cited were introduced into the NASA Information System during the period January 1962-March, 1964.