Low toxicity propulsion, or Green Propulsion, is increasingly being considered for use on spacecraft following the successful demonstration during the Green Propellant Infusion Mission in 2020. One of these missions is JPL’s Lunar Flashlight (LF), a polar orbiting 12U CubeSat that uses lasers to investigate water ice deposits on the moon’s surface. For the past 3 years, Marshall Space Flight Center has developed the ASCENT propulsion system for LF, along with a green propellant loading system to service the spacecraft. The Propellant Loading System (PLS) is composed of 3 mobile carts designed to operate at a variety of launch facilities and handle the 2 primary green propellants, LMP-103S and ASCENT. In anticipation of LF propellant loading, the PLS was recently installed into an MSFC facility for checkout operations. In the winter of 2020, a simulant spacecraft was successfully loaded with water, pressurized to flight pressure, and drained back into the system. These checkouts drove the concept of operations for final spacecraft loading and informed minor modifications to the PLS for better operability. Additionally, a parallel effort was started to design the next generation of the PLS based on water flow lessons learned. With water flow testing complete, propellant checkouts and wet dress rehearsals with spacecraft pathfinder hardware are anticipated to begin in late Spring 2021.


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    Titel :

    Concept of Operations and Checkout Testing for Green Propellant Loading System


    Beteiligte:
    M. J. Perry (Autor:in) / C. G. Burnside (Autor:in) / C. E. Diaz (Autor:in) / K. W. Pedersen (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021


    Format / Umfang :

    1 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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