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    Development of a CubeSat-Scale Green Monopropellant Propulsion System for NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission

    Development of a CubeSat-Scale Green Monopropellant Propulsion System for NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission


    NASA’s Lunar Flashlight is a low-cost 6U CubeSat whose mission is to search for ice and mineral deposits inside of the scattered craters at Moon’s southern pole. To conduct its primary science mission, Lunar Flashlight must be placed in a stable lunar polar orbit which requires the utilization of an on-board propulsion system. However, to this date, most CubeSats have been propelled by cold-gas or electric propulsion systems that have proven to scale well but lack sufficient impulse to conduct large ΔV maneuvers such as orbit insertions. To this end, the Lunar Flashlight mission has chosen to utilize a custom-designed green monopropellant propulsion system developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology under the leadership ofNASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and support from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The developed system is capable of providing more than the required propulsive capability for full mission success while fitting inside of a 2.5U volume and weighing less than six kilograms. The system utilizes the Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non Toxic (ASCENT) green monopropellant that provides higher specific impulse compared to traditional hydrazine while also being safer to handle. If successful, the presented propulsion system will enable Lunar Flashlight to be the first CubeSat to reach the Moon, the first to conduct an orbit insertion, and will be the firstCubeSat demonstration of the ASCENT propellant.

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    Development of a CubeSat-Scale Green Monopropellant Propulsion System for NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Mission

    Beteiligte:
    Grayson Huggins (Autor:in) / Ali Talaksi (Autor:in) / E. Glenn Lighsey (Autor:in) / Dawn Andrews (Autor:in) / Daniel Cavender (Autor:in) / Carlos Diaz (Autor:in) / Donald Mcqueen (Autor:in) / Jonathan Williams (Autor:in) / John Baker (Autor:in) / Matthew Kenneth Kowalkowski (Autor:in)
    Kongress:

    SciTech ; 2021 ; Nashville, TN, US

    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)

    Format :

    Keine Angabe

    Sprache :

    Englisch

    Schlagwörter :

    Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration

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