AFRL Completes ASCENT-Fueled 1-Newton Thruster Vacuum Testing

The ASCENT propellant is less toxic and thus easier to handle.
Credit: AFRL
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has successfully completed testing of a prototype 1-newton thruster using its Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-toxic (ASCENT) propellant in a vacuum chamber. The monopropellant hot fire testing was done at the laboratory’s Chemical in-Space Thruster Test and...

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