July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... odour. These properties of the hypergolic fuels do not support the green propellant approach of commercial space propulsion. While the practicality of the hypergolic propellants for space application have to be assessed, a new low molecular weight...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
... that as a feature, not a drawback, because it forces us to operate responsibly from day one. We’re also focusing on future green propellants and exploring how we can facilitate next-generation sustainable launch vehicles.” Launch window The Azores...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
...their use being limited or restricted by environmental legislation. Topics that are being worked on include green propellants and Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D-printing. ESA is creating a handbook on the application of LCA to the...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...-functioning spacecraft out of orbit At Aerojet Rocketdyne, an environmentally friendly fuel is tested in readiness for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) Total abandonment of toxic fuel components. Use of environmentally-friendly fuels...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
...-performance and non-toxic spacecraft fuel called the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). However, also stashed amongst... aims to become the first spacecraft in orbit around Earth propelled solely by sunlight; an idea that has already seen one...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...Orbit Fab’s second tanker; the first – Tanker-001 Tenzing – is a 35 kilogram small satellite tanker designed to store green propellant (high-test peroxide) in a sun-synchronous orbit to refuel other spacecraft. Tenzing was launched on 30th June, 2021...
