Turborockets May Have the Right Stuff
A spinning rocket engine that’s light and cheap.
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Innovator: John Bossard
Age: 53
Founder and president of BSRD, an aerospace engineering consulting firm in Huntsville, Ala.
Form and function
By combining traditionally separate parts of a liquid-fuel rocket engine into one rotating structure, the so-called turborocket is lighter than comparable engines, its inventor says—and it’s cheaper to build.