Design of a Solid Rocket Motor for a Transonic Research Vehicle

Hypresearch is a project that has been under development with the collaboration of ATG Europe, TU Delft, TNO for the past 7+ years. The eventual goal of the project is to fly a hypersonic research vehicle at Mach 6 (2 km/s) at an altitude of 42km for a continuous time interval of 360 seconds. Before this goal can be attained, however, several...

Micro - Thruster Development: Propulsion System for the DelFFi Mission

The format and size specifications of the CubeSat platform require highly miniaturized subsystems, one of the most challenging ones being the propulsion system. Up to date, according to the authors' knowledge, only two CubeSats have successfully operated a propulsion system in space: CanX-2 in 2008 and Defil-n3Xt in 2013. The importance of a...

Analysis of Swirl Recovery Vanes: Propulsion system performance and slipstream-wing interaction

Design of a Solar Thermal Power-Propulsion System for a Small Satellite

Electrodynamic Tether Experiment onboard the Delfi-1 Satellite

Space debris is becoming an increasing problem requiring a low cost propulsion system capable of disposing non operable satellites and spent rocket stages. To this end electrodynamic tethers have been proposed as a viable alternative to conventional propulsion. Aside from a de-orbit system electrodynamic tethers have a wide range of applications...