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Air Force Lab Awards X-Bow $18 Million To Reduce Cost And Schedule For Solid Propellants

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

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Air Force Lab Awards X-Bow $18 Million To Reduce Cost And Schedule For Solid Propellants

Static fire of X-Bow Systems' 32-inch Ballesta solid rocket motor. Photo: X-Bow Systems

X-Bow Systems last week received a $17.8 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to mature and optimize the company’s additive manufacturing technology for solid rocket motor propellants to improve affordability and speed production to meet Air Force needs. The work under the new three-year contract builds on the New Mexico-based start-up’s delivery in June 2022 of a rocket factory in-a-box Pathfinder 1, X-Bow’s low-cost mobile energetics factory demonstration unit. X-Bow will examine how it can incorporate digital…

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