Electric/Teflon
Propellant
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Electric/Teflon propellant. The use of a pulsed plasma thruster using solid teflon as a propellant resulted in an all-solid state, high performance thruster with no moving parts. Developed by Aerojet Redmond but no production application to date.
Subtopics
PRS-101 Redmond electric/Teflon rocket engine. In Production. Pulsed plasma thruster system. Completely solid state propulsion. Up to 100 W input power at 28 V DC, thrust to power ratio 12.4 microN/W.
Related
- Engines
- PRS-101