Fuel-Flexible Spacecraft Electric Propulsion System
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Sought: A fuel-flexible electric propulsion system for spacecraft that operates on multiple propellants—air, water, ammonia derivatives, and CO2 mixtures—using shared components. This addresses mission flexibility limitations and reduces costly development cycles by enabling a single system to serve diverse orbital environments and refueling architectures.
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Spacecraft electric propulsion (EP) systems typically rely on noble gas fuels (xenon, krypton, argon) stored in high pressure tanks. These fuels are unattractive for sustained ambient-air operation in very Low Earth Orbit (vLEO), or for liquid refueling operations in higher orbits using water or chemical rocket fuels as output propellants. Furthermore, thruster development to date has been highly specific to individual fuels, requiring costly development of entirely new systems for new propellan...
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