Motor test CMT0603 picture page

Elco Lagendijk assembles the test tower. Elco Lagendijk and Peter Heeren assemble the motor. The upper closure with safety membrane. The tower is placed under careful supervision. Fastening the igniter. The motor has just ignited. A few moments later. A few moments later. After 0.6 seconds the lower closure was blown away. Debris and propellant grains can be seen flying around. From another point off view, before the explosion. Just after the explosion. A few moments later. The smoke clears. The damaged test tower just after the test. Damage to the smoke diverter and lower end of the motor. The ruptured lower end of the motor. The remains and scorch marks of a propellant grain, which had burned outside the motor. Damage to the arm of the test tower. Only one of the four legs of the tower was on the feet, so the whole tower had been lifted in the air. Internal view of the smoke diverter with damage. The new "NAVRO van".

The pressure curve of CMT0603.