October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... in two opposite directions: lighter and heavier. This demand trend mainly stems from the widespread use of electric propulsion systems. Under current plans, the H3 rocket will accommodate demand by launching a broad band of satellite masses. Three...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...also likely imply systems that ran off of solar and electric propulsion systems. It is important to note that space mining ...effective space transportation systems such as solar powered electric propulsion. If one could develop multi-use systems ...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... and Mercury, in combination with the thrust provided by the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) - which is powered by a solar electric propulsion system - to reach its destination. The spacecraft will have a 7.2-year cruise, with one Earth flyby, two...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... are shut down because 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...
07 June 2015
A quick(er) jaunt to Mars?
... Charlie Bolden during a news conference on potential new options for Mars travel, has been working on solar-electric propulsion systems, for example. In spite of this potentially welcome news, it still helps to remember that even with a shortened...
01 April 2020
Rocket Propulsion
... of history and classification, mission requirements and trajectory analysis, and pretty much everything from thermochemistry to electric propulsion. Each chapter has a further reading list and there is an appendix on numerical methods and fluid...
