Deep Space Industries is supplying the water propulsion thrusters for my company.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:17 PM Davidoff, Martin R. MDAVIDOFF@ccbcmd.edu wrote:
NASA has just awarded a launch and a construction grant to Cornell University for a CubeSat designed to orbit the moon. Launch is scheduled for 2019. The core spacecraft technology involves a water electrolysis propulsion thruster which Cornell has been working on since 2009.
http://cornellsun.com/2017/06/22/nasa-to-send-cornell-groups-satellite-into-...
Makes me recall an article I read many years ago ...
J. King, "Using Water as a Primary Method of Propulsion for Spacecraft Modifying Standard STS Orbits," Orbit, no. 19, Nov/Dec 1984, pp 5-8.
This article is available at http://www.ka9q.net/AMSAT-ORBIT-19.pdf (Thank you Phil!)
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