Wickman also served as contract administrator and engineer on Phase II of the Phase Stabilized Ammonium Nitrate for Solid Rocket Propellants Air Force SBIR program. This has been successful to the point where it has now been expanded to sounding rockets. He has lead a company research and development effort focused on using low cost, commercial material for the construction of solid and liquid rocket engines. Wickman includes the design of subscale liquid oxygen monopropellant rocket engines, sounding rockets and small launch vehicles. Wickman has also served as principal investigator on a contract with NASA Glenn Research Center developing liquid oxygen/metal powder propellants that can be produced from elements commonly found on the moon. The revolutionary idea of premixing liquid oxygen and hydrocarbons to form a safe liquid monopropellant could have a major impact on the future of liquid rocket engine technology. In a previous SBIR contract, he demonstrated the feasibility of LOX/hydrocarbon monopropellants with shock sensitivity and combustion tests. Wickman characterized LOX/kerosene monopropellant and test fired a small LOX/kerosene monopropellant rocket engine. In 1995, he was principal investigator on Phase I of the LOX/kerosene monopropellant rocket engine SBIR contract with the NASA Glenn Research Center. This program was concluded successfully in 1998 with the delivery of the rocket and jet engines to NASA. He was principal investigator on Phase I and II of a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Marshall Space Flight Center contract to develop rocket and jet engines that burn carbon dioxide with magnesium powder.
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Wickman developed the SHARP “S” Series of sounding rockets that were to deploy scale prototype SHARP vehicles in Space for the NASA Ames Research Center. He has worked on a contract with the US Navy to develop a new phase stabilized ammonium nitrate oxidizer for use in tactical missiles. He was also principal investigator on a US Army contract to develop a new solid rocket pintle nozzle with integral thrust vector control. This new thruster could be used to steer a Mars sample return vehicle. He was principal investigator on a NASA contract that demonstrated the feasibility of a variable hot gas thruster using a highly metallized ammonium perchlorate solid propellant. Wickman was principal investigator on a US Air Force contract to develop a rapid response, Small Launch Vehicle (SLV) that uses a PSAN solid rocket propellant. This new solid propulsion technology was launched into space in April 2018 to move an Air Force satellite to different orbital positions during a multi-year mission. Wickman was principal investigator on the development of a new solid propellant, multi-pulse satellite thruster pack. He is continuing this work to develop an end burning, long duration solid rocket motor for use in launch vehicles. The propellants do not use chlorates or perchlorates and can be used a direct substitute for pressed black powder propellants. One of these new propellants burns as fast or faster than pressed black powder propellants. Wickman successfully developed a new class of fast burning solid propellants without the use of high energy explosives. 1985 – Present: Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company
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