洛克希德和航空喷气公司的工程师们采用先进的连续混合工艺生产了首批先进固体火箭发动机用的推进剂,该工艺过程比常规的固体发动机浇注方法更安全、更快,而且对环境污染较轻。这种连续混合方法不是新工艺方法,航空喷气公司曾在六十年代为海军的“北极星”弹道导弹计划研究过.经洛克希德/航空喷气联合队共同研究后,使得该工艺方法更加精益求精. Engineers at Lockheed and Air Jet use state-of-the-art continuous mixing technology to produce the first propellant for advanced solid rocket motors that is safer and faster than conventional solid-state engine casting methods, and more environmentally friendly light. This method of continuous mixing is not a new process and Airbus was studied by the Navy’s Polaris ballistic missile program in the 1960s and, as a result of a joint study by the Lockheed / Jet Team, made the process even more refined.