Hypergolic propellant
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A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant whose components spontaneously ignite upon contact with one another. In contemporary usage, the term typically refers to the combination of dinitrogen te
The Walter 109-509A hypergolic-propellant rocket engine of 1942–45
Hypergolic propellant tanks of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Orbital Maneuvering System
The attendant wears a full hazmat suit while loading hydrazine onto the MESSENGER space probe.
The Damascus Titan missile explosion was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas.
Hypergolic propellant
…U.S. Titan II and in most Soviet ICBMs such as the R-36, but the difficulties of such corrosive and toxic materials, including injury-causing leaks and the explosion of a Titan-II in its silo, led to their near universal replacement with solid-fuel boosters, first in Western submarine-launched ballistic missiles and then in land-based U.S…
A Titan II ICBM in its launch silo