Anduril announces new rocket motor mixer expected to boost speed and scale of SRM production

By Nick Wilson / October 3, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Anduril Industries is launching a new partnership with machinery-maker FlackTek to develop and build a new mixing machine intended to increase the speed and scale of solid-rocket motor production, the company announced today. The machine, which is used to combine chemical ingredients to make rocket propellant, is a bladeless, dual-asymmetric centrifugal mixer -- the only one of its kind, according to the notice. The mixer is expected to drive a more than ten-fold increase in Anduril’s SRM production throughput, the...

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