To manage propellant in a spacecraft, the method of this disclosure includes storing propellant in a tank as a mixture of liquid and gas; transferring the propellant out of the tank; converting the mixture of liquid and gas propellant into a single phase, where the single phase is either liquid or gaseous; and supplying the single phase of the propellant to a thruster.
SPACECRAFT THERMAL AND FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
2020-09-10
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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