RHETT and SCARLET: Synergistic power and propulsion technologies
- W.J. Schafer Associates, Inc., North Olmsted, OH (United States)
- NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
- The Pentagon, Washington, DC (United States). Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
- Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (United States)
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) sponsors an aggressive program to qualify high performance space power and electric propulsion technologies for space flight. Specifically, the BMDO space propulsion program is now integrating an advanced Hall thruster system including all components necessary for use in an operational spacecraft. This Russian Hall Effect Thruster Technology (RHETT) integrated pallet will be qualified for space flight later this year. This will be followed by a space flight demonstration and verification in 1996. The BMDO power program includes a parallel program to qualify and space flight demonstrate the Solar Concentrator Arrays with Refractive Linear Element Technology (SCARLET). The first flight SCARLET system is being fabricated for Use on the EER/CTA Comet spacecraft in late July. The space flight demonstration is the first full size, deployed concentrator solar array. The propulsion work is conducted by an industry team led by Space Power, Inc. and Olin Aerospace with their partners in Russia, NIITP and TsNIIMash. The power program is conducted by an industry team led by AEC-Able. This paper is to familiarize the space power community with the synergies between spacecraft power and electric propulsion.
- OSTI ID:
- 187034
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950729--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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