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Wonjae Yoon, Vikas Khandu Bhosale and Hosung Yoon
The development of propulsion systems based on green propellants, as an alternative to hydrazines, has been gaining interest within the space community. The study of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid monopropellant, which is low-toxic and can deliv...
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Ben Campbell and Lawrence Dale Thomas
This article describes a new alternative approach to satellite constellation deployment by incorporating momentum exchange tethers (METs). Traditional methods of deploying satellite constellations have limitations, typically involving costly propulsion s...
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Soobin Jeon, Sang-Young Park and Geuk-Nam Kim
CANYVAL-C is a formation-flying mission that demonstrates a coronagraph utilizing two CubeSats. The coronagraph is a space telescope that blocks sunlight to examine the overcast regions around the sun. It is composed of optical and occult segments. Two s...
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Andreas Neumann and Michaela Brchnelova
Electric space propulsion is a technology that is used in a continuously increasing number of spacecrafts. The qualification of these propulsion systems has to run in ground-based test facilities which requires long testing times and powerful pumping sys...
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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Kathiravan Thangavel, Pablo Servidia, Roberto Sabatini, Pier Marzocca, Haytham Fayek, Santiago Husain Cerruti, Martin España and Dario Spiller
Space-based Earth Observation (EO) systems have undergone a continuous evolution in the twenty-first century. With the help of space-based Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), specially Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), their applicability across the w...
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Francesco Barato
Hybrid rockets using specific oxidizer?fuel combinations are considered a green alternative to current propulsion systems, as they do not release very toxic or polluting exhausts, but only much less harmful substances such as carbon monoxide/dioxide and ...
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Vijesh Mohan, Andrew K. Jeyaraj and Susan Liscouët-Hanke
System integration is one of the key challenges to bringing future hybrid-electric and all-electric aircraft into the market. In addition, retrofitting and redesigning existing aircraft are potential paths toward achieving hybrid and all-electric flight,...
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Calvin Nguyen and James C. Thomas
Hybrid rocket engine (HRE) performance is dependent on fuel/oxidizer selection and fuel grain geometry. A literature review was performed to identify key trends and findings related to the application of the additive manufacturing (AM) of fuel systems fo...
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Yang Liu, Xintong Li, Pengcheng Wang, Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Zhu and Guobiao Cai
This paper proposed a multi-objective, multi-disciplinary design optimization and multi-attribute evaluation method for the manned lunar lander descent stage. A system design model is established considering multiple disciplines such as propulsion, struc...
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