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Innovative Liquid Micro Pulsed Plasma Thruster system for nanosatellites (L-µPPT)
Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,
"The rapid emergence of new application domains and mission types has had a large impact on the evolution of spacecraft design. The current interest for micro-spacecrafts essentially proceeds from the wider availability of enabling technologies (micro/nano-fabrication), and from the desire to reduce development and launcher costs. Nanosatellites are also potentially useful as a mean to increase a ...
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Chemical-µPropulsion for an Efficient and Accurate Control of Satellites for Space Exploration (PRECISE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2014,
"PRECISE focuses on the research and development of a MEMS-based monopropellant micro Chemical Propulsion System (µCPS) for highly accurate attitude control of satellites. The availability of µCPS forms the basis for defining new mission concepts such as formation flying and advanced robotic missions. These novel concepts require µCPS for highly precise attitude and orbit control manoeuvres.µCPS h ...
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Electric sail propulsion technology (ESAIL)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,
"The Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is a recent invention of ultra-efficient propellantless in-space propulsion technology. It uses the solar wind charged ions as natural source for producing spacecraft thrust. The E-sail is composed of a set of long, thin, conducting and positively charged tethers which are centrifugally stretched from the main spacecraft and kept electrically charged by an on ...
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