{"id":781248,"date":"2024-04-23T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781248"},"modified":"2024-04-23T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:45:53","slug":"pushing-the-limits-of-sub-kilowatt-electric-propulsion-technology-to-enable-planetary-exploration-and-commercial-mission-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781248","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Limits of Sub-Kilowatt Electric Propulsion Technology to Enable Planetary Exploration and Commercial Mission Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-0 padding-0\">Planetary science missions using small spacecraft will be required to perform challenging propulsive maneuvers\u2014such as achieving planetary escape velocities, orbit capture, and more\u2014that require a velocity change (delta-v) capability well in excess of typical commercial needs and the current state-of-the-art. Therefore, the #1 enabling technology for these small spacecraft missions is an electric propulsion system that can execute these high-delta-v maneuvers. The propulsion system must operate using low power (sub-kilowatt) and have high-propellant throughput (i.e., the capability to use a high total mass of propellant over its lifetime) to enable the impulse required to execute these maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/science-enabling-technology\/pushing-the-limits-of-sub-kilowatt-electric-propulsion-technology-to-enable-planetary-exploration-and-commercial-mission-concepts\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planetary science missions using small spacecraft will be required to perform challenging propulsive maneuvers\u2014such as achieving planetary escape velocities, orbit capture, and more\u2014that require a velocity change (delta-v) capability well&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781248","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}