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Articles tagged: Xenon

  • geostationary orbit (GEO), Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), satellite servicing, SpaceLogistics April 2021 Satellite servicing comes of age

    ... they have run out of station-keeping propellant MEV-1 uses highly efficient Electric Propulsion (EP) engines, utilising xenon propellant to produce far more delta-v (velocity change) than standard chemical propellants. In fact, MEV-1’s EP system has...

    • geostationary orbit (GEO)
    • Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV)
    • satellite servicing
    • SpaceLogistics
    Authors: Joseph Anderson    
  • Deep Space Transport (DST), Gateway, Mission to Mars, Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System 19 April 2019 Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report

    ... the space station itself; “overall, the Gateway presents medium technology risk because certain technologies (e.g., xenon refuelling and autonomous environmental monitoring) have not been previously demonstrated at the scale required by the Gateway...

    • Deep Space Transport (DST)
    • Gateway
    • Mission to Mars
    • Orion spacecraft
    • Space Launch System
  • Intelsat, MEV 1, MEV 2, Mission Extension Vehicle, Space Logistics 09 October 2019 The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully

    ... MEV 1 spacecraft will take over propulsion and attitude control for the ailing satellite and its xenon-fed, fuel-efficient ion thrusters will nudge the 901 satellite towards a new lower inclination operating...

    • Intelsat
    • MEV 1
    • MEV 2
    • Mission Extension Vehicle
    • Space Logistics
  • Didymos, Dimorphos, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), ESA's HERA mission, Falcon 9 22 November 2021 NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday

    ... (110 pounds ) of hydrazine propellant for spacecraft manoeuvres and attitude control and around 60 kilograms (130 pounds) of xenon for its NEXT-C ion engine, DART has been prepped for flight since it arrived at VSFB in early...

    • Didymos
    • Dimorphos
    • Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
    • ESA's HERA mission
    • Falcon 9
  • mega constellations, OneWeb, Project Kuiper, Starlink 04 June 2020 Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy

    ... with another satellite or a piece of space junk. At the moment two gases are predominantly used: Krypton and Xenon and both are extracted from liquid air by fractional distillation. However each element only makes up a very...

    • mega constellations
    • OneWeb
    • Project Kuiper
    • Starlink
  • Didymos, Dimorphos, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA, SpaceX 24 November 2021 NASA successfully launches its DART mission

    ..., 28-foot-long, roll-out solar arrays. They will power both the spacecraft and NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial ion engine, one of several technologies being tested on DART for future application on space missions...

    • Didymos
    • Dimorphos
    • Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
    • NASA
    • SpaceX
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