hydrogen peroxide fuel comes in at around $10.36 per kilogram, while hydrazine topped the cost chart at around $75.8/kg.

Spanish startup Arkadia Space has successfully tested in orbit a thruster it has developed that uses hydrogen peroxide as ...

NASA’s DART mission wasn’t designed to study—it was designed to hit. A 570 kg spacecraft, no bigger than a fridge, ...

An important aspect in the design of satellite propulsion systems is a simple, reliable and lightweight propulsion system. Hydrazine as a single propellant component feeds the thruster from only one ...

shock and hot-fire design verification testing on its first MR-104G monopropellant thruster planned for use on NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). Twelve of the hydrazine-fueled ...

After leaving Aether, Halpern “realized that the biggest issue in space transportation is the thruster and the ability to scale them,” he tells PopMech. Hydrazine, with its many protocols and ...

To fuel the thrusters, liquid hydrazine is converted into gas and released in about 40 short puffs per day to keep Voyager 1 oriented correctly. Over time, engineers discovered that a fuel tube ...

"The clogging reduces how efficiently the thrusters can generate force." When operational, the liquid hydrazine thruster should release tiny, extremely short puffs of gas in order to adjust the ...

"If the objective in the search for traces of life is to detect organic matter, it could, at worst, come from the spacecraft's own thrusters," says Grabe. Hydrazine thruster plumes contain components ...

After 47 years it’s little wonder that the hydrazine-powered thrusters of the Voyager 1, used to orient the spacecraft in such a way that its 3.7 meter (12 foot) diameter antenna always points ...

So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from an aging rubber diaphragm in the fuel tank has been depositing on the inside of ...