Lonzaâs hydrazine propellant used aboard Mars Rover
Lonzaâs hydrazine propellant used aboard Mars Rover By Theresa Schmidt | February 22, 2021 at 8:14 PM CST - Updated February 23 at 5:48 AM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) -As the Mars Rover Perseverance landed, the cheers in NASA Control could be heard around the world. But others just as jubilant were employees at Lonza, the local specialty chemical plant which makes hydrazine which is required for the mission.
Plant manager Mark Kern says theyâve been producing hydrazine for more than sixty years.
âWhether it was missions to the moon or satellites in space, or back in the day even launching rockets into space, the Lake Charles plant has been a part of that as the sole producer in the U.S. of hydrazine propellants,â said Kern.
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