Coupling Test GIESEPP-1G for GEO

The GIESEPP team is taking the next milestone: Set up for a full coupled propulsion system with ArianeGroup´s RIT-2X 5-kW-thruster unit, AST GmbH´s Flow Control Unit (FCU) and Electronic Pressure Regulator (EPR) and CRISA´s Power Processing Unit (PPU).

GIESEPP Strategic Adaptation

Change in Teaming and Setup: Mars Space Ltd to take the lead in T7-Thruster Development.

Coupling Test GIESEPP 1L/2L for LEO on Preliminary Setup

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Despite all COVID impacts and against all odds the GIESEPP team has progressed one step forward: Coupling ArianeGroup´s RIT-10 thruster with QinetiQ´s T5-Neutralizer and AST GmbH´s flow control equipment (FCU, EPR, RADICAL) has demonstrated the perfect cooperation of all related devices for the very first time.

GIESEPPS PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW (PDR) FOR THE 1L/2L CONFIGURATION

At the Advanced Space Technologies Facilities in Bremen/Germany, the GIESEPP consortium presented to the European Union and to the national agencies the preliminary design of the GIESEPP 1L/2L configuration on a meeting that took place in Q4/2019.