New material is the basis of the development of solid propellant. Among them, the research and development of new energetic materials and combustion catalysts have important significance for improving the properties of solid propellants. Research progresses of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) in heterogeneous catalysis and energetic materials are systematically introduced. It is pointed out that MOFs have higher activity in catalyzing the oxidation reactions of alkanes, alkenes, alcohols and CO, and thus possess ability of catalyzing the propellant combustion reaction. The metal oxides in-situ formed in the combustion process of propellant can also promote the combustion of propellant. MOFs with excellent energy performance and safety performance can be obtained by introducing the high nitrogen content ligands, changing the composition and structure of energetic ligands and their coordination modes with metal ions can effectively tune its energetic performance. Considering that designing and synthesizing the efficient MOFs catalyst used in solid propellant combustion, exploring the reaction mechanism of MOFs in combustion process of propellant, revealing the effect of composition, structure of energetic groups and coordination modes with metal ions on the energetic performance of MOFs may be the research focus in the future.