We will attend the Space Propulsion Conference in Glasgow 20-23. May 2024. This will be the Preliminary event program. Happy to see you there.
New Cluster of Cold Gas Thrusters in Development
We are currently developing a new cluster of 400mN cold gas thrusters.
Features:
- Thrust up to 400 mN (depending on input pressure, gas and the used throat size)
- Any configuration is possible: Direction, canting angle, number of thrusters, with or without additional isolation valve
- Pressure up to 10 bar
- Pulsable up to 500 Hz (reaction time ~ 1-2 ms)
- Lifetime: to be tested
- No warm up time
- Available seals: NBR, Silicone, and FKM
- Low power (2W for one thruster, additional 2.5W when also using an isolation valve)
- Lightweight: < 180 grams (Configuration as shown: 4 thrusters and isolation valve)
- No contamination of nearby optics or solar panels when using plain gases
- Precise, predictable, repeatable
- ISP depends on the used gas (First tests with CO2 showed a thrust of ~400 mN and a specific impulse of 630 m/s (64s))
- Compatible with non corrosive gases like H2, N2, He, Ar, CO2, N2O, Propane, Ethane, Coolants like LMP-103S and many more
Cluster of 4 400mN cold gas thrusters with optional additional isolation valve. Thrusters are slightly canted to prevent the exhaust to impact satellite structure. More info’s in the future here.
Visiting Space Tech Expo Bremen and FormNext Frankfurt
ETH Focus Project DAEDALUS Video
Look what Team DAEDALUS achieved! Their hybrid rocket motor, based on Nitrous Oxide/Paraffin, is now a flight worthy marvel of engineering. It will be flown this summer as a part of the PICCARD rocket. I am (again) proud to be part of that story. See also the other related posts
ETH Focus project IRIDE ends with a great success. VIDEO!
The ARIS IRIDE team finished it’s test campaign with a great success. Watch the amazing video they created! I am proud to be part of that story. Together with the predecessor team RHEA they finished the construction of the test infrastructure, they also designed, build and tested a 5 kN rocket hybrid engine. The new team DAEDALUS will now design flight worthy hardware for ARIS’ PICCARD rocket aimed for the Spaceport America Cup 2021.
IGNITION @ ARIS
Great work of the ARIS team! Congratulation! I am proud to be part of that journey! 🚀🚀 (Embedded via LinkedIN, original link)
First firing of ARIS’ RHEA engine
RHEA, lays the foundation for future hybrid rocket engine developments at ARIS. The built test infrastructure is expandable to thrusts up to 20 kN. RHEA’s first-generation engine focuses on high safety factors and a high degree of modularity to test a variety of different key parameters. A perfect baseline to scale up the engine and make it flight-ready in the future. RHEA’s successor IRIDE is currently under development and will deliver 5kN of thrust.
