Design and In-orbit Demonstration of REGULUS, an Iodine electric propulsion system
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Abstract REGULUS is an Iodine-based electric propulsion system. It has been designed and manufactured at the Italian company Technology for Propulsion Innovation SpA (T4i). integrates Magnetically Enhanced Plasma Thruster (MEPT) its subsystems, namely electronics, fluidic, thermo-structural in a volume of 1.5 U. The mass envelope 2.5 kg, including propellant. targets CubeSat platforms larger than 6 U carriers. A thrust T = 0.60 mN specific impulse I sp 600 s are achieved with input power P 50 W; nominal total tot 3000 Ns. integrated on-board UniSat-7 satellite In-orbit Demonstration (IoD) currently ongoing. principal topics addressed this work are: (i) design REGULUS, (ii) comparison propulsive performance obtained operating MEPT different propellants, Xenon Iodine, (iii) qualification acceptance tests, (iv) plume analysis, (v) IoD.
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceas Space Journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1868-2502', '1868-2510']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12567-021-00374-4