Igniter

For further technical information on FLARE see: P. Diamond Triple coaxial plasma igniter A coaxial igniter consists of a fully insulated conductor, covered by four strips of aluminum foil.

Snell will be a mentor for projects accepted into D2P’s Innovation to Market and Igniter programs.

There was no explosive and no igniter.

A TCPI igniter is fitted in individual propellant cases for each piece of ammunition.

Despite these daunting tasks FLARE has been seen as the most plausible igniter for future application on ETC guns.

Further investigation revealed the same problem for the third-stage engine—a faulty igniter line.

However, TCPI is no longer considered a viable method of propellant ignition because it may damage the fins and does not deliver energy as efficiently as a FLARE igniter.

If FLARE provided the XM-291 gun project with the sufficient radiative heat to ignite the propellant to achieve a muzzle energy of 17 MJ one could only imagine the possibilities with a fully developed FLARE plasma igniter.

The gun crews were removing the charges from their containers and removing the paper covering over the gunpowder igniter charges.

These coated granules are usually under the commercial labels Aerojet S-405 (previously made by Shell) citation or W.C.Heraeus H-KC 12 GA (previously made by Kali Chemie). citation There is no igniter with hydrazine.

The team modified the igniter lines and fuel conduits, hoping to avoid similar problems on future launches.

This requires an electrical circuit called an igniter, which is part of the ballast circuitry.