What is it about?
This work describes an approach for fabricating miniaturized monopropellant-based propulsion systems for small satellites using rapid prototyping techniques; this will greatly reduce costs for such sysems
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Why is it important?
The design and fabrication of miniaturized propulsion systems remains an key challenge in technology development for small satellites (cubesats).
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This page is a summary of: Development of an Additively Manufactured Microthruster for Nanosatellite Applications, January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2016-0963.
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