RHETT and SCARLET: Synergistic power and propulsion technologies

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:187034

Allen, D M ^[1]; Curran, F M; Sankovic, J ^[2]; Caveny, L H ^[3]; Brophy, J R; Garner, C ^[4]

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1. W.J. Schafer Associates, Inc., North Olmsted, OH (United States)
2. NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
3. The Pentagon, Washington, DC (United States). Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
4. 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-; TRN: IM9609%%326
• Resource Relation: Conference: 30. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference, Orlando, FL (United States), 30 Jul - 5 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 30. intersociety energy conversion engineering conference. Volume 1: Aerospace power; Goswami, D.Y. [ed.] [Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)]; Kannberg, L.D.; Somasundaram, S. [eds.] [Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)]; Mancini, T.R. [ed.] [Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)]; PB: 798 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
14 SOLAR ENERGY
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
SATELLITES
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SUPPLIES
ION THRUSTERS
HALL EFFECT
SOLAR CELL ARRAYS
CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS
SPACECRAFT POWER SUPPLIES
NESDPS Office of Nuclear Energy Space and Defense Power Systems