Thursday, 25 February 2021

Image: Greener way to get satellites moving

A sustained test firing of a 'green' satellite thruster at Poland's Institute of Aviation, intended as a future alternative to today's hydrazine-based apogee engines, typically used by telecommunication satellites to maneuver into their final geostationary orbits.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-image-greener-satellites.html