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NASA Completes Environmental Tests on Ball Aerospace-Made Spacecraft for Green Propellant Demo Mission; Chris McLean Comments

NASA Completes Environmental Tests on Ball Aerospace-Made Spacecraft for Green Propellant Demo Mission; Chris McLean Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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GreenPropellantNASA has completed a series of environmental and functional tests on software and systems in a Ball Aerospace & Technologies-built spacecraft designed to demonstrate a green propellant alternative to hydrazine.

The space agency plans to launch in 2017 the Ball Configurable Platform-100 small satellite in an effort to carry and demonstrate the AF-M315E fuel as part of its Green Propellant Infusion Mission, NASA said Thursday.

The Air Force Research Laboratory developed the AF-M315E propellant, while Aerojet Rocketdyne built the thrusters and the propulsion subsystem for the spacecraft.

“The GPIM spacecraft will go into storage for a few months and the team will focus on the propellant’s handling and loading campaign,” said Chris McLean, principal investigator for GPIM and a staff consultant at Ball Aerospace and Technologies.

BCP-100 is scheduled to lift off onboard the SpaceX-built Falcon Heavy launch vehicle in 2017 as well as bring three Defense Department-supplied experimental payloads into orbit.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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