IAF Space Propulsion
Symposium 2019
Held at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019)
Washington, DC, USA 21 -25 October 2019
Volume 1 of 2
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VOLUME 1
PROPULSION SYSTEM (1)
BLUE WHALE 1: A NEW DESIGN APPROACH FOR TURBOPUMPS AND FEED SYSTEM ELEMENTS ON SOUTH KOREAN MICRO LAUNCHERS ...... 1 Dongyoon Shin
KEYNOTE: PROMETHEUS: PRECURSOR OF LOW-COST ROCKET ENGINE ...... 2 Jérôme Breteau
ASSESSMENT OF MON-25/MMH PROPELLANT SYSTEM FOR DEEP-SPACE ENGINES ...... 3 Huu Trinh
60 YEARS DLR LAMPOLDSHAUSEN – THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND TEST SITE FOR CHEMICAL SPACE PROPULSION SYSTEMS ...... 9 Anja Frank, Marius Wilhelm, Stefan Schlechtriem
FIRING TESTS OF LE-9 DEVELOPMENT ENGINE FOR H3 LAUNCH VEHICLE ...... 24 Takenori Maeda, Takashi Tamura, Tadaoki Onga, Teiu Kobayashi, Koichi Okita
DEVELOPMENT STATUS OF BOOSTER STAGE LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE OF KSLV-II PROGRAM ...... 30 Soon-Young Park, Yoonwan Moon, Hwan-Seok Choi, Chang Ho Choi, Sangyeop Han, Yeoung-Min Han, Jinhan Kim
DEVELOPMENT TESTS OF RD815 ENGINE PREBURNER DEMONSTRATOR ...... 44 Alexandr Prokopchuk, Volodymyr Shulga, Andrew Kukhta, Yevgen Strelchenko
ANOMALY DETECTION OF LIQUID PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINE USING SYSTEM INVARIANT ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY ...... 49 Masaki Sato, Tomoyuki Hashimoto, Masanori Shiga, Tomoya Soma, Toshiya Kimura, Shinichi Moriya
VINCI UPPER STAGE ENGINE QUALIFICATION FOR ARIANE 6 ...... 59 Erwam Humbert, Patrick Danous
MAIN RESULTS FROM ORION EUROPEAN SERVICE MODULE PROPULSION SUBSYSTEM QUALIFICATION TESTING ...... 66 Markus Jäger
WATER PROPULSION - THE ULTIMATE GREEN TECHNOLOGY ...... 73 Ulrich Gotzig, Malte Wurdak, Nicholas Harmansa, Zachary Lynn
NUMERICAL STUDY ON PERFORMANCES OF AN ELECTRIC PUMP-FED CYCLE ROCKET ENGINE ...... 80 Toshiya Kimura, Mitsuru Shimagaki, Hitoshi Naito, Tomoyuki Hashimoto, Masaki Sato, Naoki Nagao
PRELIMINARY STUDY ON EXPANDER CYCLE METHANE ENGINE FOR POST-KSLV 2 PROGRAM ...... 89 Cheulwoong Kim, Hayoung Lim, Gyusik Cho, Woongrae Roh QUALIFYING AN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE FOR HOT- FIRE READINESS ...... 95 Nihar Patel, Venkata Devalaraju, Sean Standbridge, Paul Prochnicki, Suyash Ghirnikar, Andrew Antony
PROPULSION SYSTEM (2)
HYBRID PROPULSION: INNOVATIVE FORMULATIONS BASED ON PARAFFIN / ETHANOL INTERACTION ...... 109 Rene Gonçalves, Cristiane Martins, Leonardo Gouvêa, Paulo Gabriel Cunha Martins, Koshun Iha, Jose Rocco
IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF PROPELLANT ENTRAPMENT IN LOOSE FLAP CAVITY ON BALLISTIC PERFORMANCE AND VALIDATION THROUGH HOT TEST OF SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER ...... 110 Arun Raj, A Shaji, V Mahesh, Levin G, Eswaran V
KEYNOTE: OMEGA LAUNCH VEHICLE ...... 111 Kent Rominger
ARIANE 6 AND VEGA-C PROGRAMS: THE P120C SRM NOZZLE QUALIFICATION ...... 112 Eric Gautronneau
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF 4D CARBON-CARBON THROAT INSERT THROUGH HOT TEST OF SOLID MOTOR ...... 125 Shubham Maurya, Shaji A, Arun Raj, V Mahesh, Jhon Paul, Krishnadasan C K, Levin G, Siva Kumar Ganesan
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES OF SLOW BURNING SOLID BOOSTER FOR SUB-ORBITAL HYPER SONIC RE-ENTRY EXPERIMENT ...... 130 Achutananda Parhi, Mahesh V, Levin G, Eswaran V
PERFORMANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT PREDICTION OF SRMS. ROAD MAP FOR RELIABLE DATASET OF PARTICLES IN PLUME ...... 131 Stefania Carlotti, Filippo Maggi, Luciano Galfetti
ANALYSIS OF SOLID PROPELLANT COMBUSTION USING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES ...... 138 Sonali Sinha Roy, Selvakumaran T
MARS ASCENT VEHICLE (MAV) PRELIMINARY ARCHITECTURE ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW ...... 149 Angie Jackman
A STUDY ON NEW HYBRID ROCKET ENGINE WITH MULTI-SECTION SWIRL INJECTION AND AFT COUNTER-SWIRL INJECTION METHOD ...... 160 Shigeru Aso
REAL-TIME REGRESSION RATE MEASUREMENT OF AN ADDITIVE-MANUFACTURED FUNCTIONAL HYBRID ROCKET FUEL ...... 169 Kohei Ozawa, Han-Wei Wang, Takuro Yoshino, Nobuyuki Tsuboi
COST-EFFECTIVE HYBRID ROCKET LAUNCH VEHICLE OF TAIWAN ...... 179 Yen-Sen Chen GREEN FUELS FOR ROCKET PROPULSION: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF PARAFFIN-BASED FORMULATIONS ...... 186 Riccardo Bisin, Sebastiano Alberti, Alberto Verga, Christian Paravan, Luciano Galfetti
DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF THRUST MODULATION IN HYBRID ROCKET FOR VTVL PROPULSION SYSTEM ...... 198 Heesang Chae, Donghoon Chae, Changjin Lee
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF N2O/CO2 OXIDIZER MIXTURE WITH PARAFFIN BASED MICRO-ALUMINUM FUEL FOR MARS ASCENT VEHICLES ...... 205 Ozan Kara, Arif Karabeyoglu, Büsra Kahraman, Busra Nimet Eren, Hakki Karakas
PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY (1)
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF ROTATING STALL IN HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP OF SEMICRYOGENIC ENGINE ...... 220 Khalid Rashid, Deepak K. Agarwal, John T Tharakan, Sunil Kumar S.
KEYNOTE: PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AT NASA ...... 221 George Schmidt
FEASIBILITY STUDY ON ELECTRIC PUMPS FEEDING PROPELLANTS TO A ROCKET ENGINE ...... 222 Mitsuru Shimagaki, Toshiya Kimura, Tomoyuki Hashimoto, Satoshi Takada, Hayato Ikeda, Shuiciro Honda, Kozo Matake
HOT-FIRE TEST OF THE ETID SANDWICH NOZZLE EXTENSION FOR FUTURE UPPER STAGE ENGINE APPLICATIONS ...... 230 Klas Lindblad, Eva Stenström, Darri Kristmundsson, Jan Östlund, Alexandre Capitao Patrao
CHANNEL WALL NOZZLE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS FOR LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES ...... 235 Paul Gradl, Christoper Protz
PROGRESS IN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COPPER-ALLOY GRCOP-84, GRCOP-42, AND BIMETALLIC COMBUSTION CHAMBERS FOR LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES ...... 251 Paul Gradl, Christoper Protz, David Ellis, Sandy Greene
THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR A SINGLE-PART ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE INJECTOR WITH AS-PRINTED ORIFICES ...... 265 John Targonski, Michael Moruzzi
LASER METAL DEPOSITION TECHNOLOGY FOR LE-9 ENGINE...... 266 Akira Ogawara, Masaki Adachi, Koichi Okita, Hideto Kawashima
FLAME INITIATION INSIDE THE GAS TORCH IGNITION SYSTEM FOR A HYBRID ROCKET MOTOR ...... 272 Olexiy Shynkarenko, Domenico Simone, Artem Andrianov, Jungpyo Lee, Artur Bertoldi, Kesiany Souza
LIQUID UPPER STAGE DEMONSTRATOR ENGINE (LUMEN): STATUS OF THE PROJECT ...... 282 Tobias Traudt
DEVELOPMENTAL STATUS OF THRUSTER IN MHI (MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.) ...... 290 Daijiro Shiraiwa INTELLIGENT FLOW PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR HIGH THRUST ENGINES FOR MIXTURE RATIO CONTROL ...... 298 Elayaperumal Ezhilrajan
TRANSIENT PROCESS SIMULATION OF 180KN LOX/KEROSENE UPPER STAGE ENGINE WITH ROCKETENGINE SOFTWARE VERSION 2.0 ...... 299 Yuanqi Li, Hongjun Liu, Chen Hongyu, Lili Ren
OPEN CELL METAL FOAM SUPPORTED CATALYSTS FOR HYDROGEN PEROXIDE THRUSTERS ...... 307 Pawel Surmacz, Zbigniew Gut
ELECTRIC PROPULSION
KEYNOTE: “LAB TO LAUNCH” ...... 314 Christine Charles, Dimitrios Tsifakis, Alex Bennet, Rod Boswell, Weston Braun, Juan Rivas- Davila, Kazunori Takahashi, Akira Ando, Eszter Dudas, Abdessamad Benidar, Robert Georges, Scott Doyle, James Dedrick, Félicien Filleul, John Cater, Nicholas Rattenbury
ELECTRIC PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AT NASA ...... 323 George Schmidt, David Jacobson, Michael Patterson, Gani Ganapathi, John Brophy, Richard Hofer
GT-50 RF ION THRUSTER: DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND PRINCIPAL SOLUTIONS ...... 325 Ivan Cherniy
ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM SPS-25 WITH HALL THRUSTER ...... 326 Olexandr Petrenko, Stanislav Tolok, Victor Maslov, Sergey Kulagin, Viktor Serbin, Alexander Alekseenko, Danylo Shcherbak
ELECTRIC MICROPROPULSION RESEARCH AT BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ...... 333 William Yeong Liang Ling, Xiangyang Liu, Zhiwen Wu, Kan Xie, Ningfei Wang
DEVELOPMENT STATUS OF THE HT5K HIGH VOLTAGE MODEL ...... 334 Tommaso Andreussi, Vittorio Giannetti, Antonio Piragino, Eugenio Ferrato, Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Alena Kitaeva, Mariano Andrenucci
EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER BASED PLASMA ENGINE FOR DEEP SPACE MISSIONS ...... 342 Pranav Nath, C K Muthukumaran, Nipin L, Deepak K. Agarwal, Umesh R Kadhane, John T Tharakan, Sunil Kumar S.
THE ARIANEGROUP ELECTRIC PROPULSION PRODUCT FAMILY...... 344 Ulrich Gotzig, Hans Leiter, Philipp Bauer, Marcel Berger, Jan-Patrick Porst, Michael Rath
VERIFICATION OF MINIATURIZED ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS THROUGH A SMALL TEST PLATFORM ...... 350 Fabrizio Stesina, Sabrina Corpino, Giorgio Saccoccia, Daniele Calvi, Jose Gonzalez Del Amo, Eduard Bosch Borràs
QUALIFICATION STATUS OF THE PPS®5000 HALL THRUSTER UNIT ...... 358 Olivier Duchemin, Julien Rabin, Lahib Balika, Vincent Guyon, Anthony Caron, Giovanni Coduti, Claude-Martin Brito, Vanessa Vial, Xavier Cavelan, Vaitua Leroi, Stephan Zurbach INPPS FLAGSHIP: CLUSTER OF ELECTRIC THRUSTERS ...... 372 Frank Jansen, Tim Brandt, Emmanouil Detsis, Athanasios Dafnis, Simona Ferraris, James Ap Findlay, Ikkoh Funaki, Richard Granjon, Jan Thimo Grundmann, Gerhard Grunwald, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimaraes, Martin Hillebrandt, A. C. Koroteev, Jim C. Kuijper, Francois Lassoudiere, Masson Frederic, Michel Muszynski, Stephane Oriol, Martin Richter, Lars Schanz, Alexander V. Semenkin, Alexander E. Solodukin, Tim Tinsley, Maria Cristina Tosi, Jean-Claude Worms
DISCUSSION QUASI-STEADY STATE OF OPERATING MPD THRUSTER WITH SPECIALIZED PULSED POWER SUPPLY ...... 382 Shunichiro Ide, Ryudo Tsukizaki, Kazutaka Nishiyama, Hitoshi Kuninaka
ELECTRIC PROPULSION MISSIONS TO URANUS, NEPTUNE AND BEYOND ...... 385 Edgar Bering, Matthew Giambusso, Mark Carter, Jared Squire, Franklin Chang Diaz, Alex Parker
PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY (2)
CONJUGATED HEAT TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS WITH METHANE IN ROCKET NOZZLE COOLING CHANNELS ...... 406 Jens Fridh, Jan Östlund
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL CHEMICAL KINETICS INVESTIGATION OF NITROUS OXIDE FUEL BLENDS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON SPACE VEHICLE CONTAMINANTS ...... 407 Martin Hoener, Tina Kasper
STUDENT TEAM DEVELOPMENT OF BIPROPELLANT ELECTRIC FEED SYSTEM FOR 2.2KN ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL/LIQUID OXYGEN ROCKET ENGINE ...... 408 Julio Garcia
AUTOPHAGE CASELESS THROTTLEABLE SOLID MOTOR FOR SMALL SATELLITES ...... 409 Vitaly Yemets, Mykola Dron', Mykhailo Yemets, Patrick Harkness
AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS OF ION THRUSTER PLUME PLASMAS IN VERY LOW EARTH ORBIT ...... 410 Shaun Andrews, Lucy Berthoud
ROBUST TRANSIENT CONTROL OF REUSABLE LIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINES ...... 427 Sergio Pérez-Roca, Julien Marzat, Hélène Piet-Lahanier, Nicolas Langlois, Marco Galeotta, François Farago, Serge Le Gonidec
NOVEL PROPELLANT FEED SYSTEM FOR CHEMICAL IN-SPACE PROPULSION ...... 437 Ritvik Pareek
DEVELOPMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE SOLID STRAPON MOTOR ...... 438 Mahesh V, Achutananda Parhi, Rajkumar A R, Mohammad Ali, A Shaji, Levin G, Eswaran V
COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF AEROSPIKE ENGINES FOR REUSABLE ROCKET SYSTEMS ...... 439 Sahil Bhatia, Tanish Gupta, Aman Kumar Panda, Gurunadh Velidi IMPLEMENTATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR THE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT OF THE JESSIE & JAMES LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES ...... 440 John Targonski, Michael Moruzzi
ULTRA-HIGH-TEMPERATURE CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES FOR HYBRID ROCKET NOZZLES ...... 441 Giuseppe Di Martino, Stefano Mungiguerra, Anselmo Cecere, Raffaele Savino, Luca Zoli, Antonio Vinci, Laura Silvestroni, Diletta Sciti
UPDATES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WATER ELECTROLYSIS PROPULSION SYSTEM ...... 451 Nicholas Harmansa, Georg Herdrich, Stefanos Fasoulas, Ulrich Gotzig
INVESTIGATION ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF EMPLOYING DUAL THROAT MICRONOZZLE IN MICROSATELLITE PROPULSION ...... 456 Shreesha Madhu, Devika R, Sanjukta Mandal, Srinivasan S, Raj Kedia
A NEWLY DEVELOPED HIGH PERFORMANCE ADN BASED MONOPROPELLANT WITH A SAFETY EVALUATION ...... 465 Ju Won Kim, Seungkwan Baek, Yeonsoo Jung, Hong Seop Ban, Sejin Kwon
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ABLATION CHARACTERISTICS OF HAFNIUM-BASED COMPOSITES IN THE HYBRID ROCKET NOZZLE ...... 473 Kyu-Seop Kim, Sea-Hoon Lee, Van Quyet Nguyen, Yongtae Yun, Sejin Kwon
NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE ATOMIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPINGING LIQUID JETS COUPLED WITH FORCED PERTURBATION ...... 485 Jianan Li, Fanpei Lei, Qun Liang, Feng Xiping, Lixin Zhou
NEW MISSIONS ENABLED BY NEW PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS
A TORUS-SHAPED SOLAR SAIL ACCELERATED VIA THERMAL DESORPTION OF COATING ...... 487 Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Olga L. Starinova, Alexander S. Chekashov, Dylan J. Slocki
NUCLEAR FUSION PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MISSIONS TO MARS ...... 488 Saroj Kumar, Jason Cassibry
FAST TRANSIT TO MARS ...... 489 Geoffrey Steeves, Jaroslaw Jaworski
PARAMETRIC STUDY OF SOLAR ELECTRIC SAIL THRUST MODELING FOR INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS UNDER VARIOUS SOLAR WIND VARIABILITY ...... 490 Harijono Djojodihardjo
AIR, CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATER AS OXIDIZERS FOR METAL-BASED FUELS FOR AEROSPACE PROPULSION AND FUTURE SPACE MISSIONS ...... 507 Ilyes Ghedjatti, Shiwei Yuan, Haixing Wang
FITTING A HIGH TOTAL IMPULSE ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM IN A STUDENT CUBESAT TO COMPENSATE THE ATMOSPHERIC DRAG IN LOW-EARTH ORBIT ...... 519 Timothée Darcet, Florian Marmuse, Victor François, Clément Pellouin, Thomas Bellier, Baptiste Decorde, Julie Delgado, Maixent Esmieu-Fournel, Dmitry Gaynullin, Etienne Gourcerol, Lucas Langlois, Nathan Magnan, Benoit Oriol, Paul Ponchon, Bastien Schnitzler, Jonas Schweizer, Samuel Thirion, Lilia Solovyeva INDUCTIVE PLASMA THRUSTER (IPT) DESIGN FOR AN ATMOSPHERE-BREATHING ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM (ABEP) ...... 529 Francesco Romano, Georg Herdrich, Peter C. E Roberts
IMPACT OF PROPULSION SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS ON THE POTENTIAL FOR COST REDUCTION OF EARTH OBSERVATION MISSIONS AT VERY LOW ALTITUDES ...... 536 Giacomo Bertolucci, Francesco Barato, Elena Toson, Daniele Pavarin
VOLUME 2
GEO TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITE: NEW OPPORTUNITIES ENABLED BY A 20KW CLASS HALL THRUSTER ...... 559 Christopher Andrea Paissoni, Jasmine Rimani, Nicole Viola, Tommaso Andreussi
3U NANOSATELLITE WITH ELECTRIC PROPULSION AS A MOON PROBE FOR A FLYBY MISSION ...... 570 Derik Bhardwaj, Ugur Guven, Chesler Thomas, Ayush Tiwari, Deeksha Navlani, Kunal Garg, Yash Adnani
ROTARY SOLAR SAIL FOR NANOSATELLITE CONSTELLATION FORMATION ...... 580 Vera Mayorova, Stepan Tenenbaum, Dmitry Rachkin, Oleg Kotsur, Valeriia Melnikova, Dmitry Romanenko, Kirill Frolov, Veronika Pavlyuchenko, Victoria Goryunova, Adelina Gataulina
THE VALUE PROPOSITION OF MULTI-MEGAWATT ELECTRIC POWER/PROPULSION FOR THE HUMAN EXPLORATION OF MARS ...... 586 John Scott
MANNED MISSION TO EUROPA USING ADVANCED POSITRON DRIVE ...... 596 Mridul Jain, Ugur Guven, Vishwani Aggarwal, Hema Punni, Sambbhav Jain
PROSPECTS FOR THE USE OF HELICON THRUSTERS FOR SPACE EXPLORATION ...... 597 Iana Kharlan, Ighor Uzhinsky, Ruslan Rakhimov
THE KON-TIKI MISSION – DEMONSTRATING LARGE SOLAR SAILS FOR DEEP SPACE MISSIONS ...... 605 Les Johnson, Frank Curran, Andrew Heaton, Richard Dissly
LAUNCH SYSTEM SOLUTIONS FOR INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL ...... 610 Steven Vernon
JOINT SESSION ON ADVANCED AND NUCLEAR POWER AND PROPULSION SYSTEMS
POWERING EXPLORATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM – A FIFTY YEAR LEGACY CONTINUES ...... 611 Thomas J. Sutliff, Leonard Dudzinski, John Hamley
ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM DESIGN OF NUCLEAR THERMAL ROCKET EMPLOYING PROPELLANT PRODUCED IN-SITU FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION ...... 612 Davide Barbero, Alessandro Lovagnini
VERSATILE NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION (NTP) ...... 613 Michael Houts IMPACT MODELLING AND SAFETY TESTS FOR THE ESA RADIOISOTOPE POWER SYSTEMS ...... 619 Alessandra Barco, Richard Ambrosi, Martin Libessart, Julien Moriceau, Pierre Brunet, Christophe Fongarland, Keith Stephenson
ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND POLICIES RELATED TO SPACE NUCLEAR POWER AND PROPULSION ...... 625 Jericho Locke, Bhavya Lal, Jonathan Behrens
NUCLEAR PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY FOR EXPLORATION AND A SUSTAINABLE PRESENCE ON THE MOON, MARS AND BEYOND ...... 633 Claude Joyner
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION ROCKET (NTPR) BIMODALITY, FUEL, AND PROSPECTIVE COATING ...... 642 Valerie Lawdensky, William Culbreth
EVALUATION OF MINIMALLY-INTRUSIVE POWER GENERATION SYSTEM (MIPS) DESIGN ALTERNATIVES FOR NUCLEAR THERMAL PROPULSION ...... 653 Samantha Rawlins, Dale Thomas
THE PYLON: COMPACT LEU COMMERCIAL FISSION POWER THE MOON, MARS, AND SPACE ...... 658 Christopher Morrison, Paolo Venneri, Michael Eades, Mark Reed, Vishal Patel, Wesley Deason, Samuel Judd
LIQUID FLUORIDE THORIUM REACTOR - CURRENT RESEARCH AND CAPABILITIES FOR MARS AND MOON HUMAN COLONIES...... 659 Jakub Nalewaj, Slawomir Malkowski, Diana Pawlicki
THE DIPOLE DRIVE A NEW CONCEPT IN PROPELLANTLESS PROPULSION ...... 667 Robert Zubrin
FUSION PROPULSION AND POWER FOR EXTRASOLAR EXPLORATION ...... 679 Stephanie Thomas, Charles Swanson, Michael Paluszek, Samuel Cohen, Slava G. Turyshev
RADIOISOTOPE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS (RTGS) AND HEATER UNITS (RHUS) BASED ON AMERICIUM-241 FOR SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION ...... 691 Richard Ambrosi, Alessandra Barco
THE SPACEDRIVE PROJECT – OVERVIEW OF REVOLUTIONARY PROPULSION EFFORTS AT TU DRESDEN ...... 697 Martin Tajmar, Matthias Kössling, Marcel Weikert, Maxime Monette, Oliver Neunzig
JOINT SESSION BETWEEN IAA AND IAF FOR SMALL SATELLITE PROPULSION SYSTEMS
HIGH-MATURITY ELECTRIC PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR ENABLING DEEP SPACE CUBESAT MISSIONS ...... 708 Michael Tsay
LIGHTSAIL 2: CONTROLLED SOLAR SAIL PROPULSION USING A CUBESAT ...... 709 Bruce Betts, David Spencer, John Bellardo, Bill Nye, Alex Diaz, Barbara Plante, Justin Mansell, Michael Fernandez, Cole Gillespie, Darren Garber GROUND TEST RESULTS OF THE WATER RESISTOJET PROPULSION SYSTEM AQUARIUS FLIGHT MODEL INSTALLED ON A 6U CUBESAT: EQUULEUS ...... 714 Mariko Akiyama, Keita Nishii, Kosei Kikuchi, Wang Qihang, Masaya Murohara, Yasuho Ataka, Jun Asakawa, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Kota Kakihara, Kanta Yanagida, Ryo Suzumoto, Ryu Funase, Kimiya Komurasaki
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF MEMS MICRO-THRUSTERS THROUGH NOVEL DOUBLE DEPTH AEROSPIKE DESIGN ...... 720 Chaggai Ganani, Angelo Cervone
ENHANCEMENT OF MICROSATELLITES' MISSION CAPABILITIES: INTEGRATION OF REGULUS ELECTRIC PROPULSION MODULE INTO UNISAT-7 ...... 729 Nicolas Bellomo, Alessia Gloder, Marco Manente, Elena Toson, Fabio Trezzolani, Antonio Selmo, Riccardo Mantellato, Lorenzo Cappellini, Matteo Duzzi, Mirko Magarotto, Riccardo Di Roberto, Daniele Pavarin, Filippo Graziani
FREEFORM PROPELLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR CUBESATS ...... 739 Amanda Steckel
VERSATILE, LOW COST, MICRO-PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION PLATFORM USING THE 3U CUBESAT STANDARD ...... 750 Sean Crowley, Alyssa Ralph, Amelia Greig
THE COMET THRUSTER: ON-ORBIT RESULTS AND EXPANDING PRODUCTION CAPABILITY ...... 762 Vincent Tarantini, Nathan Orr, Scott Armitage, Karan Sarda, Daniel Cajacob, Niels Roth
CHARACTERIZATION OF FILM EVAPORATING MICROCAPILLARIES FOR MICRONEWTON THRUSTERS ...... 763 Steven Pugia
PET-100: THE ULTIMATE ELECTROSPRAY THRUSTER FOR CUBESAT CONSTELLATIONS ...... 774 Alberto Garbayo, Chengyu Ma, Charlie Ryan, Daniel Staab
OVERVIEW OF ELECTRIC AND ADVANCED PROPULSION DEVELOPMENTS AT TU DRESDEN ...... 781 Martin Tajmar
DEVELOPMENT OF N2O/HDPE HYBRID ROCKET FOR MICROSATELLITE PROPULSION ...... 782 Landon Kamps, Pau Molas-Roca, Erika Uchiyama, Tomohiro Takanashi, Harunori Nagata
DEVELOPMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF THE IFM MICRO THRUSTER ...... 796 Lou Grimaud, David Krejci, Alexander Reissner, Bernhard Seifert
HYPERSONIC AIR-BREATHING AND COMBINED CYCLE PROPULSION
KEYNOTE: TEST COMPLEX M11: RESEARCH ON FUTURE ORBITAL PROPULSION SYSTEMS AND SCRAMJET ENGINES ...... 806 Marius Wilhelm, Lukas Werling, Christoph Kirchberger, Friedolin Strauss, Felix Lauck, Michele Negri, Helmut Ciezki
ULTRA-FAST LASER-ABSORPTION TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF ADVANCED AIRBREATHING HYPERSONIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS ...... 821 Subith Vasu, Kyle Thurmond BANTAM AFTER BURNING ROCKET ENGINE (ABRE) PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR A REUSABLE HYPERSONIC TEST BED ...... 822 Joaquin Castro
CFD ANALYSIS OF SUPERSONIC TURBULENT COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS WITH DETAILED PLUME STRUCTURE FOR SINGLE AND MULTI-NOZZLES FOR AEROSPACE VEHICLES DESIGN ...... 823 Muhammad Amjad Sohail
CHEMICAL TIME SCALES DISTRIBUTION FOR SCRAMJET OPERATION ...... 824 Sterian Danaila, Dragos Isvoranu, Alina Bogoi, Constantin Leventiu
DEVELOPMENT OF ROCKET-RAMJET PROPULSION BASED ON CONTINUOUSLY ROTATING DETONATION ...... 835 Piotr Wolanski, Michal Kawalec
DYNAMIC MODELING OF RAMJET ENGINE BASED ON SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM ...... 836 Qin Yan-Ping, Junlong Liang, Li Bin
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF HYDROCARBON BASED FUELS IN SOLID FUEL RAMJET PROPULSION ...... 837 Olexiy Shynkarenko, Victor Azevedo, Carlos Veras, Ivo Alves
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH FOR THE EFFECTS OF TRAILING EDGE STRUCTURE ON THE SUPERSONIC MIXING LAYER ...... 846 Shen Chibing, Wang Peng, Fang Xinxin
FUZZY CONTROL OF SHOCK POSITION OF WIDE RANGE RAMJET ...... 847 Qin Yan-Ping, Lili Fu
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON NONLIENAR DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF THE RAMJET ENGINE TO FREESTREAM PERTURBATIONS BASED ON WENO SCHEME ...... 848 Qin Yan-Ping, Junlong Liang, Li Bin
CFD INVESTIGATION OF RAMJET FLAMEHOLDER NEAR-WAKE FLOW BASED ON OPENFOAM FRAMEWORK ...... 849 Yi Wang, Baoyuan Wu, Sigang Yu
PROGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL DISINTEGRATION AND SEPARATION PROCESS FOR HYPERSONIC VEHICLE ...... 856 Dun Li, Yuelong He, Liu Shuai, Yu Haichuan, Meng Xufei, Li Zhihui
RESEARCH ON BOUNDARY LAYER COMBUSTION FOR SKIN-FRICTION REDUCTION ...... 863 Rui Xue
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TURBULENT FLOW AND COMBUSTION IN RAMJET CHAMBER WITH NON-UNIFORM INFLOW ...... 864 Yi Wang, Baoyuan Wu, Sigang Yu
PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY (3)
A TEST RIG FOR MEASURING ROTORDYNAMIC FORCE COEFFICIENTS OF SEALS, HYDROSTATIC BEARINGS AND IMPELLERS: SUMMARY OF A DECADE OF TESTS ...... 870 Pascal Jolly, Olivier Bonneau, Mihaï Arghir STATUS REPORT PROMETHEUS L-PBF TURBINE PROGRAM ...... 875 Staffan Brodin, Tomas Fernstrom, Filip Jensen, Clas Andersson, Christo Dordlofva
ELECTRIC SAIL PROPULSION FOR DEEP SPACE MISSIONS ...... 885 Les Johnson, Kurt Polzin
DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW COST COLD GAS REACTION CONTROL SYSTEM ...... 891 Samuel Gaylin, Dylan Bell, John Harro, Matthew Stephens
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR RELATIVISTIC LASER SAILS ...... 896 Brice Cassenti
EVALUATION OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE COOLING CHANNELS ...... 910 Alex Bishop
DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST HYPERGOLIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS IN IHI AEROSPACE ...... 934 Shohei Koga, Masayuki Tamura, Kenichi Kimoto
COLD GAS EXPERIMENTS ON LINEAR, THRUST-VECTORED AEROSPIKE NOZZLES THROUGH SECONDARY INJECTION ...... 939 Jan Sieder-Katzmann, Martin Propst, Martin Tajmar, Christian Bach
PARAMETRIC STUDY OF COMBUSTION INSTABILITY IN A MULTI-INJECTOR ROCKET COMBUSTOR USING 2D PLANAR DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS ...... 949 Arnau Pons Lorente, Gowtham Manikanta Reddy Tamanampudi, Swanand V. Sardeshmukh, William Anderson
BLACK ENGINE CERAMIC ROCKET PROPULSION ...... 957 Markus Ortelt
DEVELOPMENT STATUS OF NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS FOR ROCKET ENGINE DESIGN ACTIVITIES - TOWARDS PRECISE PREDICTION OF COMBUSTION INSTABILITIES - ...... 967 Masaki Adachi, Akira Ogawara, Daiki Watanabe, Hideki Moriai, Ryoichi Kurose, Takayuki Nishiie
STATUS REPORT SWAN SANDWICH NOZZLE PROGRAM FOR ARIANE 6 ...... 973 Lise Brox, Magnus Wir, Marcus Almqvist, Michael Hallberg, Anders Pettersson, Anna Lind
ANALYSIS OF ABNORMAL COMBUSTION PHENOMENON IN A BIPROPELLANT 150N LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE DURING START-UP TRANSIENT ...... 981 Ruida Chen, Hui Xu, Ben Liu, Changguo Liu
EMDRIVE THRUST/LOAD CHARACTERISTICS. THEORY, EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND A MOON MISSION...... 988 Roger Shawyer
REDUCED KINETIC MECHANISMS FOR METHANE-OXYGEN ROCKETS TO MARS ...... 1001 Scott Martin INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS - IAF SPACE PROPULSION SYMPOSIUM
TRANSIENT SIMULATION OF THE IGNITION OVER-PRESSURE PHENOMENON IN THE ALTITUDE TEST OF THE STAGED-COMBUSTION-CYCLE ROCKET ENGINE ...... 1012 Hongyue Wang, Fanchao Kong, Mao Li, Ruimin Liu, Zhang Jiaxian, Chuangchuang Yu, Jia Zhang
PARAMETRIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LIQUID INJECTION THRUST VECTOR CONTROL IN HYBRID ROCKETS ...... 1013 Eunkwang Lee, Yongtae Yun, Sejin Kwon
ANALYSIS OF OPERATING DIAGRAM FOR KEROSENE / OXYGEN-ENRICHED AIR ROTATING DETONATION COMBUSTORS UNDER LEAN FUEL CONDITION ...... 1014 Qiaofeng Xie, Bing Wang, Haocheng Wen
PROJECT ICE RABBIT: INTEGRATED LIQUID OXYGEN/LIQUID METHANE PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR FUTURE PLANET EXPLORATION VEHICLE ...... 1015 Cheng Cheng
PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF HIGH SPEED TEST FACILITY FOR COUNTERFLOW JET EXPERIMENTS REDUCING HEAT AND DRAG ...... 1016 Yuseok Lee, Hansol Kim, Hwanil Huh
EFFECT OF RESIDUAL STRAIN ON STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF SRM GRAIN DURING IGNITION ...... 1017 Jiming Cheng, Jinxian Li, Guoqiang Zhu
EJECTOR DEVELOPING OF VACUUM IGNITION TEST SYSTEM FOR UPPER-STAGE LH2-LOX ROCKET ENGINES ...... 1018 Fanchao Kong, Ruimin Liu, Zhang Jiaxian
RING ROCKETS ...... 1019 Oleg Aleksandrov
DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTABLE ELECTRODELESS PLASMA PROPULSION SYSTEMS USING EVOLUTIONARY TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION AND PARTICLE IN CELL SIMULATION ...... 1020 Alexander Ryan, Marcela Bilek, David McKenzie, Iver Cairns, Stephen Bathgate, Warwick Holmes
THE P-5 ENGINE: A COSTA RICAN, COST-EFFECTIVE, LOW POWER LIQUID ROCKET ENGINE ...... 1021 Roy Ramirez
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DRAG REDUCTION BY PLASMA COUNTERFLOW JETS IN MACH 7 SHOCK TUNNEL ...... 1022 Jaecheong Lee, Yuseok Lee, Yongchan Kim, Hyoungjin Lee, Hwanil Huh
PLASMA ASSISTED NITROUS OXIDE DIRECT THERMAL \\DECOMPOSITION AND COMBUSTION FOR HYBRID ROCKET ...... 1023 Myoungjin Kim, Taegyu Kim
OPTIMUM DESIGN OF LOX RECIRCULATION SYSTEM IN KSLV-II 1ST STAGE ...... 1024 Youngsuk Jung, Seungwhan Baek, Kie Joo Cho DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE HYPERGOLIC HYBRID ROCKET FUEL IGNITOR WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ...... 1025 Junyeong Jeong, Vikas Khandu Bhosale, Yongtae Yun, Sejin Kwon
DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE 3D PRINTED INCONEL RESISTOJET ...... 1026 Giulio Coral, Kiyoshi Kinefuchi, Daisuke Nakata, Kazutaka Nishiyama, Hitoshi Kuninaka
PLUME SIMULATION OF HAN THRUSTER FOR GREEN PROPELLANT APPLICATION ...... 1031 Kyun Ho Lee, Jung Won Kuk
INNOVATIVE VRD SOLUTION FOR DEEP SPACE MISSIONS ...... 1032 Artem Madatov, Volodymyr Astapenko, Maksym Tkachenko
THE CRYOGENIC PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY FOR FUTURE DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION ...... 1042 Han Ji
DETERMINATION OF COMPOSITE SOLID PROPELLANT RELAXATION MODULUS MASTER CURVES FROM DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS ...... 1047 Wagner Kim Amaral Silva, Gustavo Murari, Flávia Untem, Pedro Castro, Fábio Luiz Calciolari, Luiz Eduardo Nunes De Almeida
THE IPG6-B AS A RESEARCH FACILITY TO SUPPORT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC PROPULSION ...... 1048 Jens Schmidt, Rene Laufer, Georg Herdrich, Truell Hyde
OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH ON NUCLEAR THERMAL ROCKET NOZZLES AT OSU ...... 1055 Nick Salamon, John M. Horack
CHARACTERIZATION OF AN ADAPTIVE HALL THRUSTER ...... 1056 Nicholas Proulx
INFLUENCE RULE AND GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF PARAMETERS DURING CURE PROCESS OF SRM COMPOSITE CASE ...... 1057 Qun Liang, Feng Xiping, Li Jian, Hou Xiao, Du Ying
NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDY ON OXIDATION COKING OF HYDROCARBON FUEL IN THE PRESENCE OF ELECTROSTATIC FIELD ...... 1067 Dan Jin, Weixing Zhou, Chengxu Qiu
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY ON CHARGING PROPERTIES OF CIGARETTE GRANULES UNDER ELECTROSTATIC FIELD ...... 1068 Bowen Yang, Weixing Zhou
EFFECT OF COMBUSTION ON SUPERSONIC FILM COOLING BY HYDROCARBON ...... 1069 Li Xingtai, Silong Zhang
THE EFFECT OF THE REGENERATIVE COOLING PROCESS ON THE SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION INSIDE A STRUT-BASED SUPERSONIC COMBUSTOR ...... 1070 Huimin Tian, Silong Zhang, Wen Bao ON THE EFFECTS OF THERMOACOUSTICS ON SOOT FORMATION AND FLAME INSTABILITY ...... 1071 Rahul Ravi Ravichandran, Sambit Supriya Dash, Jayraj Chaudhary, Tathagat Sarangi, Vinayak Malhotra, Mohammed Abrar Nizami
STUDY OF DUAL-CATALYTIC BED SCALE-UP PARAMETERS FOR HIGH TEST HYDROGEN PEROXIDE THRUSTERS ...... 1083 Sangwoo Jung, Yongtae Yun, Sejin Kwon
COMBUSTION AND PROPULSIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF POTENTIAL HYBRID ROCKET PROPELLANT ...... 1084 Aditya Virkar, Rahul Sunil, Vinayak Malhotra
THE PROJECTS OF THE RAPID INTERSTELLAR EXPEDITIONS...... 1085 Oleg Aleksandrov
PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF ENGINE HEALTH MONITORING FOR HALL THRUSTER ...... 1086 Christopher Andrea Paissoni, Tommaso Andreussi, Fabrizio Paganucci, Nicole Viola
THE EFFECT OF FUEL LENGTH ON THE REGRESSION RATE IN SWIRLING-OXIDIZER- FLOW-TYPE HYBRID ROCKET USING A LIQUEFYING FUEL ...... 1087 Yo Kawabata, Kazunari Onagano, Yutaka Wada, Nobuji Kato, Keiichi Hori, Ryo Nagase
ELECTRIC PROPULSION’S RATIONAL APPLICATION RANGE ON THE SMALL SPACECRAFTS ...... 1088 Alexey Sidorov, Viktor Pererva
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