Deorbit motor forces gases through vanes circling the nozzle, rotating and stabilizing the satellite.
Credit: Aerospace Corp.
LOGAN, Utah–Aerospace Corp. has developed and tested a small solid rocket motor designed to deorbit cubesats from low Earth orbit (LEO). The Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) created the rocket motor to help small satellites comply with the Federal Communication Commission’s...
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