CHIPS — CubeSat High Impulse Propulsion System
CU AerospaceMiniaturized warm-gas resistojet propulsion system for CubeSats with integrated main thruster and 3-axis ACS.
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Miniaturized warm-gas resistojet propulsion system for CubeSats with integrated main thruster and 3-axis ACS.
Water-propellant resistojet for CubeSats — green propellant, non-toxic, no pressure vessel, 0.2–1 mN thrust, passive propellant feed, compatible…
Miniaturized pulsed plasma thruster array for CubeSats — flight-proven on multiple missions (Foresail-1, STRIDER), attitude control and station-keeping,…
Passively-regulated cold gas propulsion system using R134a refrigerant — no pressure regulators, valves self-heated by resistors, sub-1 kg,…
150 W-class Xenon Hall-effect thruster for 50–300 kg smallsats — up to 10 mN thrust, 1,000–1,600 s Isp,…
World's first flight-qualified iodine-propelled Hall-effect thruster — 1.2 mN thrust, 590–1,500 s Isp, stores solid iodine (no pressure…
Turn-key RF electrodeless plasma propulsion system for 20–500 kg satellites — 5.9 kg dry, 8–18 mN thrust, 600–1,300…
Thrust Vector Control systems for solid and hybrid motor launch vehicles using flex nozzle, engine gimbaling, or liquid…
Modular Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) system for satellite mobility, using a solid metallic propellant with no moving…
High-Isp electric propulsion ablating spooled PTFE fiber via short pulses — >3,500s Isp, no pressurized tank, scales 0.7L-53L,…
Miniaturized propulsion combining main thruster with 3-axis attitude control — non-toxic self-pressurizing propellants, 120M+ valve actuations, 0.54U CHIPS-180…
High-thrust monopropellant propulsion using proprietary CMP-X ethanol/hydrogen-peroxide blend — safer, lower-cost alternative to hydrazine, >2,000 Ns total impulse.
Next-generation monopropellant thruster using eco-friendly, nontoxic propellant — starting from 1N thrust, for 1U to 26U+ CubeSats, 30x…
All-in-one, ready-to-use propulsion module integrating with the ATOM thruster — combines fuel tanks and thrust control for CubeSat…
HAN-based liquid monopropellant, electrically ignitable or catalyst-bed ignitable — comparable to AF-M315E with slightly higher performance and faster…
Green (nontoxic) monopropellant developed by AFRL and licensed to DSSP — higher-performance, less-toxic alternative to hydrazine.
Switching unit routing electrical power between electric propulsion power supplies and thrusters — routes signals from two PPUs…
High-performance thruster with closed-loop pressure control and deep throttling — 2-200N thrust range across 3 sizes, up to…
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