BATES
STANDARDIZED SYSTEM FOR MEASURING SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANT PERFORMANCE
Ballistic Test and Evaluation System; BATES grain
BATES is an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System, which is a standardized system for measuring solid rocket propellant performance designed and developed by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in 1959 through the early 1960s, used for almost forty years thereafter, and again beginning in 2010. Then through 2016.