XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.space.shuttle   
   From: gherbert@retro.com   
      
   Retro Aerospace is proud to announce that we have   
   completed an initial test series on a Marshall Spaceflight   
   Center developed energetic monopropellant material,   
   polymerized AcetylOzone.  This molecule, HOOOCCH,   
   has proven extremely difficult to synthesize and   
   polymerize until very recently.  Initial testing   
   shows that it has a bulk density at cryogenic   
   temperatures of 1.2 and a specific impulse in   
   monopropellant mode of over 400 seconds.   
      
   We have tested Acetylozone both as pressed bulk   
   powder in solid rockets and as a liquid slurry   
   with FLOX.  Initial test results of both use   
   forms are excellent.   
      
   Our full initial press release is available on the   
   Retro Aerospace website at the URL:   
      
   	http://www.retro.com/hooocch/acezone.html   
      
      
   -george william herbert   
   gherbert@retro.com   
      
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