{"id":586706,"date":"2019-03-04T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=32936"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:11:51","slug":"uwe-4-first-nanofeep-thruster-ignition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=586706","title":{"rendered":"UWE-4: First NanoFEEP thruster ignition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UWE-4<\/a>At 09:59:00 UT on February 26, one of the UWE-4 CubeSat NanoFEEP thrusters, developed by TU Dresden and Morpheus Space, was successfully ignited.<\/p>\n

This is the first time an electric propulsion system has been activated on board of a 1U CubeSat in space.<\/p>\n

A voltage of more than 5kV has been produced by the power processing unit causing a thruster emitter current of 40\u00b5A. For this very first firing a duration of 30s was intended.<\/p>\n

Primary mission: accomplished!<\/p>\n

Within the next days experiments with the propulsion system for a characterization of the thrusters will be conducted.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much for your support! Especially the directly injected messages into our server using the decoding tool by Mike DK3WN help us a lot with our daily operations!<\/p>\n

Kind regards,
\nThe UWE\u20114 Team<\/p>\n

UWE-4 435.600 MHz
\nhttp:\/\/www7.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de\/forschung\/space-exploration\/projects\/uwe-4\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"UWE-4<\/a><\/p>\n

UWE-4 Thruster Firing Voltage (kV)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At 09:59:00 UT on February 26, one of the UWE-4 CubeSat NanoFEEP thrusters, developed by TU Dresden and Morpheus Space, was successfully ignited. This is the first time an electric propulsion system has been activated on board of a 1U … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593036,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586706\/revisions\/593036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}