SpaceNews

Ball Aerospace wrapping up green propellant smallsat demo mission

The Ball Aerospace-led Green Propellant Infusion Mission, funded by NASA, has flown for 13 months using an alternative to hydrazine. Credit: Ball Aerospace WASHINGTON — Ball Aerospace says it has ...
SpaceNews

NASA Selects Green Propellant Technology Demonstration Mission

NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance “green” propellant alternative to the highly toxic ...
Cleveland.com

Engineers at Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center prepare to test safer 'green' space propellant

When a malfunctioning U.S. spy satellite threatened to fall out of orbit in February 2008, military officials took the unusual step of blasting the spacecraft to bits with a well-aimed missile. Most ...
Purdue University

Purdue students to design, build, fly spaceflight experiment to test green propellant

Purdue students (from left) Ben Tackett, Siddharth Tripathi, Jordan Nykiel, Brian McGuire, and Andrew Melgar, are taking a Zero-Gravity Flight Experiment course, creating an experiment to study a new ...
Aviation Week

Arkadia Space Says In-Space Demo Of Green Propellant Successful

Arkadia Space of Spain says its in-space demonstration of its hydrogen peroxide green monopropellant has been successful. The company’s DARK propulsion system, which uses the propellant, launched in ...
Science Daily

GPIM spacecraft to validate use of 'green' propellant

Milestone progress is being made in readying NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) for launch in 2016, a smallsat designed to test the unique attributes of a high-performance, non-toxic, ...