07 March 2018
World's first firing for ESA's air-breathing electric thruster
... mixture until it could ignite solely from the collected atmospheric propellant. “This result means air-breathing electric propulsion is no longer simply a theory but a tangible, working concept, ready to be developed, to serve one day as the basis...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
... satellite to replenish the constellation. ExoMG™, and its nano, micro and cluster product configurations, is an electric propulsion system for satellites ranging from 10 to 300 kg. The Exotrail ExoMG™ - Cluster2 is a system configuration baselined...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
...of ArianeGroup’s Arclight Radio Frequency Ion Thrusters. Apart from being highly efficient, another advantage of the Arclight electric propulsion system is that it is compact and lightweight. Its small form factor will help to limit the weight of the...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... wing and tail surfaces and fly like an airplane11. This drone makes use of distributed propulsion, an interesting feature of electric propulsion. Drone flight In recent years, European companies have increased the use of drones to provide business...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... burn up in the atmosphere, undock from that descending debris and then travel, using its highly efficient electric propulsion engine, to another spacecraft or debris object and deorbit that too; and so forth, to allow an economic commercial system...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... for X-band and Ka-band telecommunications; a compact, deployable Ka-band 0.5 m diameter reflector antenna; Micro-Electric Propulsion (MEP) that can provide up to 1 km/s of Delta-V; the design of a standard attachment container to deploy cubesats...
