The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization sponsors an aggressive program to develop and demonstrate electric propulsion and space power technologies for future missions. This program supports a focused effort to design, fabricate, and space qualify a Russian Hall thruster system-on-a-pallet ready to take advantage of a near-term flight opportunity. The Russian Hall Effect Thruster Technology (RHETT) program will demonstrate an integrated pallet design in late FY95. The program also includes a parallel effort to develop advanced Solar Concentrator Arrays with Refractive Linear Element Technology (SCARLET). This synergistic technology will be demonstrated in a flight experiment this summer on the Comet satellite. This paper provides an overview of the RHETT and SCARLET programs with an emphasis on electric propulsion, recent progress, and near-term program plans.


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    Title :

    The BMDO Thruster-on-a-Pallet Program



    Conference:

    Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit ; 1995 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    1995-10-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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