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US 2022/0177166 A1Published application
Spacecraft thermal and fluid management systems
AssigneeMomentus Inc.
InventorsMikhail Kokorich, Joel Sercel, Aaron Mitchell, Gedi Minster, Yuqi Wang, Lee Wilson, James Small
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Abstract
To manage propellant in a spacecraft, the method of this disclosure includes storing propellant in a tank as a mixture of liquid and gas; transferring the propellant out of the tank; converting the mixture of liquid and gas propellant into a single phase, where the single phase is either liquid or gaseous; and supplying the single phase of the propellant to a thruster.
Claims15
A method for managing propellant in a spacecraft, the method comprising:
- storing propellant in a tank as a mixture of liquid and gas;
- transferring the propellant out of the tank;
- converting the mixture of liquid and gas propellant into a single phase, where the single phase is either liquid or gaseous;
- and
- supplying the single phase of the propellant to a thruster.
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A system comprising:
- a tank storing propellant as a mixture of liquid and gas;
- a thruster configured to consume the propellant to generate thrust;
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- one or more components configured to implement of any of the preceding claims.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.