In order to give the Senior design students (Aerospace Engineering) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) some real world project management and system engineering skills, all class members launched rockets with individualized experiments onboard. Each group of 4 to 5 students was responsible for designing, building, testing and launching a 50 lb thrust hybrid rocket. Each group selected two variables to measure such as stagnation pressure, stagnation temperature or propellant tank temperature. They were graded on the accuracy of their preflight predictions, and the complexity of their proposed experiment. If their rocket did not recover, they wrote a failure analysis report.

On June 6th, ten HyperTek™ hybrid launches took place, with successful data collection on half of the launches. The best performaning team designed a rocket that deployed a tetrahedral array of four beach balls and filled them with R-134a refrigerant. Gas flow was initiated with a custom designed pyrovalve. The refrigerant evaporated during decent, filling the beach balls such that they were fully inflated before touchdown. The rest of the rocket and the nose cone recovered on two separate parachutes. All launches were powered by Cesaroni Technology Incorporated's HyperTek™ hybrid motors.

Cesaroni Technology Inc will be an exhibitor at the 2008 ASHRAE show in New York City from January 22-24, 2008. This show highlights the latest technologies in the Heating, ventilation and Air Conditioning industry. Come visit us at Booth # 7773.

NAVAIR, Weapons Division, China Lake, has awarded Cesaroni Technology Incorporated another contract to manufacture additional Radar Rabbits for use in radar system calibration. These drones are approximately 80 inches long and 4 inches in diameter. They have a total impulse of about 2200 lb.sec. and burn for 6 seconds, reaching 660 m/s maximum velocity.

Cesaroni Technology Incorporated is currently supplying "dummy" rounds of ammunition for hand gun training at several law enforcement training facilities in Canada. These rounds, when used during training in conjunction with service ammunition, simulate weapon malfunctions. CTI is currently manufacturing and stocking 9 mm, .40 cal and .45 cal "dummy" rounds. Other popular hand gun calibers and rifle calibers such as 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm are available upon request.

On April 28th, a Spaceloft™XL rocket successfully completed a round-trip space flight launched from Spaceport America. This rocket was developed by UP Aerospace Inc. of Hartford, Conn. The rocket carried a wide variety of experiments and payloads, which included the cremated remains of Star Trek's "Scotty", James Doohan and NASA astronaut and pioneer Gordon Cooper. In addition, the cremated remains of more than 200 people from all walks of life were onboard. Also flown into space on the SL-2 Mission were dozens of student experiments from elementary schools to high schools to universities - from across America and worldwide - as well as innovative commercial payloads.

The flight was a successful demonstration of the rocket motor developed and built by Cesaroni Technology Incoporated (CTI). CTI started the design process in September of 2005. CTI specializes in low cost propulsion systems for military and space applications and used its experience to develop an affordable, reliable propulsion system for the rocket. The motor has a carbon fiber composite case and a monolithic solid propellant grain that is bonded to the casing.

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Technical data for the UPA-264-C rocket motor

Diameter	10.45 inches
Overall length including payload adaptors	119 inches
Propellant Weight	412 lbs
Propellant Mass Fraction	0.8 -
Delivered Sea-level Specific Impulse	240 s
Burn Time	12 s

View photograph of the most recent test firing

Cesaroni Technology Incorporated has been awarded a contract to manufacture parachute extractor motors. This product will be used in a military UAV.

Initial testing of Cesaroni Technology Incorporated’s 30 mm PGU-15/B TP practice round has shown positive results. This round is a completely new design making extensive use of polymer technology. This new technology will allow the round to be much more resistant to damage while being handled. The new design allows normal weapon function and can be processed in standard loading equipment. The incumbent design suffers from corrosion issues due to the protective coating chipping away when the round is handled. CTI’s new technology eliminates that problem by coating the entire projectile in a toughened polymer and the use of innovative internal design elements.

Cesaroni Technology Inc. has recently delivered two polymeric heat exchangers to Calmac Manufacturing Corporation, of Fair Lawn, NJ. These heat exchangers use sophisticated flow circuitry to achieve uniform cooling and heating with the same core on two separate circuits. The units are currently being tested in an undisclosed military application.

Cesaroni Technology Inc. has successfully completed a Phase I SBIR award from the US Special Forces Command for the development of cooling suits for US Army personnel. The concept demonstrated by CTI joins several technologies to outperform currently available systems while remaining lightweight and capable of untethered operation for long periods of time.

On September 25th, the inaugural flight of the Spaceloft™XL rocket took place. This rocket was developed by UP Aerospace Inc. of Hartford, Conn. The rocket carried over 50 experiments and payloads from the private and educational sectors, worldwide. Although the rocket did not reach its expected altitude of 110 km because of an airframe instability, the flight was a successful demonstration of the rocket motor developed and built by Cesaroni Technology, Inc. (CTI) of Gormley, ON, Canada. CTI started the design process in September of 2005. CTI specializes in low cost propulsion systems for military and space applications and used its experience to develop an affordable reliable propulsion system for the rocket.

The rocket motor has a carbon fiber composite casing and a monolithic solid propellant grain that is bonded to the casing. Several static tests were performed to qualify the design and manufacturing procedures. These tests were performed on a thrust stand that was custom built for this rocket motor.

On October 21st Armadillo Aerospace (of Mesquite, TX) demonstrated its vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTOL) during the X PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, NM. The vehicle was built to compete in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. In all three flights, the team was able to fly the 90+ seconds to an altitude of 50 meters and over a distance of 100 meters. Armadillo shattered a number of DC-X records on reflight/turn-around time. Cesaroni Technology Inc (CTI) of Gormley, ON supplied the ablative combustion chamber for the liquid rocket engine. Because of the long burn times and high flame temperatures, the chamber consists of a heat-resistant core that is overwrapped with a high-temperature composite for structural strength. CTI designed and built the first prototype in a record time of 6 weeks. It turned out to be indestructible, and accumulated tens of firing minutes. A second series of identical chambers were then built and used for tethered flight testing and the flights at the X PRIZE Cup.

Cesaroni Technology Incorporated has signed its first agreement with Cornerstone Consultants, LLC, of Spring Hill Florida, to market Cesaroni Technology Incorporated's polymeric heat exchangers. Specifically in chiller applications, these 100% polymer exchangers perform equivalent to metal exchangers, but overtime as the metal incumbent degrades from corrosion, the polymer exchanger outperforms the metal exchanger. This is a culmination of a long development program of 20 years, of which the first 18 years were with a co-development partner: DuPont. Cesaroni Technology Incorporated perfected a flexible manufacturing approach that allows for manufacturing of leak-free exchangers with several hundred thin walled tubes at a competitive price. There are opportunities to use this technology in industrial, marine, defense and automotive markets for specific applications.

Performance data for Model # HFC - CTI's production Polymeric Heat Exchanger

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