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AFOSR and NASA Launch First Test Rocket Fueled by Aluminum-Ice Propellant

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It consists of an all-carbon-fiber, minimum-diameter high-power rocketry kit. Using ALICE as fuel, a nine-foot rocket soared to a height of 1,300 feet over Purdue University’s Scholer farms in Indiana earlier this month. The ALICE flight-vehicle assembled on the launch rail. Credit: Dr. Steven F.