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The payload is expected to launch in 2018 and will operate in space for up to a year, allowing researchers to evaluate the system under real conditions.
Neumann Space has signed a contract with Airbus Defence & Space to bring their record-shattering technology to the ISS.
This ion space drive was developed by Paddy Neumann, formerly a PhD student at the University of Sydney, and can achieve more than 11,000 seconds of specific impulse.
This is a measure of thruster efficiency, and far exceeds that achieved by Nasa’s High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) system, which allows for about 9,600 seconds of impulse.
The Neumann ion drive bombards the fuel source with electric arcs, which causes ions to be discarded.
These ions then move through a magnetic nozzle, resulting in forward propulsion.
And while HiPEP system runs on xenon gas, Neumann's ion drive can instead run on various metals – many of which can be found in space junk.
This could drastically reduce the cost and energy needed to support these systems.
According to Neumann Space, this type of technology wouldn’t be used to launch a spacecraft.
Instead, its fuel efficiency can be used to optimize the efforts of long-term missions, including the maintenance of satellites in orbit over many years, or to transport probes to far places, like asteroids.
This could also be used to send equipment and supplies to space before a manned mission.
David McKenzie, Professor of Materials Physics, says that with the capabilities so far seen in the lab tests, ‘it is possible to send missions to Mars, have them perform experiments in Mars orbit, and then bring the spacecraft back to Earth orbit without needing to refuel the spacecraft.’
The Science behind the technology
http://neumannspace.com/science/
Neumann Space has signed a contract with Airbus Defence & Space to bring their record-shattering technology to the ISS.
This ion space drive was developed by Paddy Neumann, formerly a PhD student at the University of Sydney, and can achieve more than 11,000 seconds of specific impulse.
This is a measure of thruster efficiency, and far exceeds that achieved by Nasa’s High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) system, which allows for about 9,600 seconds of impulse.
The Neumann ion drive bombards the fuel source with electric arcs, which causes ions to be discarded.
These ions then move through a magnetic nozzle, resulting in forward propulsion.
And while HiPEP system runs on xenon gas, Neumann's ion drive can instead run on various metals – many of which can be found in space junk.
This could drastically reduce the cost and energy needed to support these systems.
According to Neumann Space, this type of technology wouldn’t be used to launch a spacecraft.
Instead, its fuel efficiency can be used to optimize the efforts of long-term missions, including the maintenance of satellites in orbit over many years, or to transport probes to far places, like asteroids.
This could also be used to send equipment and supplies to space before a manned mission.
David McKenzie, Professor of Materials Physics, says that with the capabilities so far seen in the lab tests, ‘it is possible to send missions to Mars, have them perform experiments in Mars orbit, and then bring the spacecraft back to Earth orbit without needing to refuel the spacecraft.’
The Science behind the technology
http://neumannspace.com/science/
