Propulsion Products and Services
Northrop Grumman Space Systems
Northrop Grumman offers a comprehensive range of propulsion products and services, including flight-proven systems, bipropellant and monopropellant thrusters, and gel propulsion systems, backed by over four decades of flight experience.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Thrust
- 0.4 N
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Mre-0.1 thrust
- 0.4 N @ 350 psia; Isp 216 sec; 0.5 kg; 180x38 mm
- Mre-1.0 thrust
- 4.4 N; Isp 220 sec; 0.5 kg; 190x38 mm
- Mre-4.0 thrust
- 18 N @ 600 psia; Isp 217 sec; 0.5 kg; 61x206 mm
- Mre-5.0 thrust
- 22 N @ 400 psia; Isp 232 sec; 0.8 kg; 250x38 mm
- Mre-15 thrust
- 86 N @ 400 psia; Isp 228 sec; 1.1 kg; 119x318 mm
- Propellant
- Hydrazine
- Mre-0.1 demonstrated life
- 34 kg throughput / 117,000 cycles
- Mre-1.0 demonstrated life
- 122 kg throughput / 421,000 cycles
- Mre-4.0 demonstrated life
- 249 kg throughput / 507,000 cycles
- Mre-5.0 demonstrated life
- 456 kg throughput / 340,000 cycles
- Mre-15 demonstrated life
- 970 kg throughput / 105,561 cycles
About
Northrop Grumman provides a complete range of propulsion products and services for developing and producing high-quality flight hardware. Their propulsion products have demonstrated exceptional reliability over four decades of flight experience, with no spacecraft, launcher, or missile failures attributed to a Northrop Grumman-built propulsion system. Specifically, their bipropellant or gel rocket engines have never suffered a flight failure across more than 100 separate missions for various programs. The current product line includes flight-proven systems, bipropellant engines and thrusters, monopropellant thrusters, and gel propulsion systems. They also offer a line of standard components designed to provide optimal performance, high reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Beyond hardware, Northrop Grumman’s propulsion-related services encompass engineering, fabrication, integration, testing, and documentation. Their experienced engineering staff specializes in the design, analysis, and testing of propulsion components and integrated systems, complemented by a chemistry technology capability that provides extensive analytical support for propellant and rocket materials development.
Documentation
- MRE-01_MonoProp_Thruster.pdf PDF source: www.northropgrumman.com ↗
- MRE-10_MonoProp_Thruster.pdf PDF source: www.northropgrumman.com ↗
- MRE-40_MonoProp_Thruster.pdf PDF source: www.northropgrumman.com ↗
- MRE-50_MonoProp_Thruster.pdf PDF source: www.northropgrumman.com ↗
- MRE-15_MonoProp_Thruster.pdf PDF source: www.northropgrumman.com ↗
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