HiperLoc-EP High Performance Low Cost Electric Propulsion 1 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
HIPERLOC-EP: D EVELOPMENT OF E LECTROSPRAY C OLLOID E LECTRIC P ROPULSION AS A LOW COST DISRUPTIVE PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY P RESENTER : J OHN S TARK Q UEEN M ARY U NIVERSITY OF L ONDON EPIC Workshop 24th October 2017 CDTI Madrid This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
T HE T EAM Project Lead • Queen Mary University Of London (UK) Team Members • Airbus Defence & Space Ltd (UK) • NanoSpace AB (Sweden) • SystematIC design BV (Netherlands) This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Project Title Hi gh per formance L o w c ost E lectric P ropulsion system: HiperLoc-EP Vision To develop an Electric Propulsion System having an efficiency and performance comparable to those used on current commercial platforms but fully scalable in thrust from μ N to mN with cost an order of magnitude below current systems, thus facilitating the market opportunities for large scale microsatellite constellations and commercial microsatellite platforms 4 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Project Title Hi gh per formance L o w c ost E lectric P ropulsion system: HiperLoc-EP Vision To develop an Electric Propulsion System having an efficiency and performance comparable to those used on current commercial platforms but fully scalable in thrust from μ N to mN with cost an order of magnitude below current systems, thus facilitating the market opportunities for large scale microsatellite constellations and commercial microsatellite platforms 5 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Project Title Hi gh per formance L o w c ost E lectric P ropulsion system: HiperLoc-EP Vision To develop an Electric Propulsion System having an efficiency and performance comparable to those used on current commercial platforms but fully scalable in thrust from μ N to mN with cost an order of magnitude below current systems, thus facilitating the market opportunities for large scale microsatellite constellations and commercial microsatellite platforms 6 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
The Technology Electrospray Colloid Electric Propulsion Microthrust Array (FP7) Original requirement performance specification HiperLoc-EP Target performance Thrust Specific Efficiency density Specific Thrust Thrust Volume % mN/cm^2 Impulse (sec) mN/kW target μN dm^3 0.2 2500 40 100 0.3 50 7 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Novelty • New approach driven by requirement for major cost reduction • Radical paradigm shift in the manufacturing and materials used for any EP system (including colloid) • The design is an integrated system comprising • Colloid thrust head • Propellant Storage and Feed System • Power Processing Unit HiperLoc-EP test piece 8 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Activities Completed • Website now on line http://www.hiperloc.eu/ • Market analysis identifying initial markets that could be disrupted by HiperLoc-EP Technology • Analysis of functional requirements for target markets • Identification of system performance requirements and updating of original specification • Critical component testing (on-going) • Developing system architecture (on-going) 9 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Market Analysis Market Analysis • Review has taken place of various markets that may be disrupted by access to a performant low cost EP • Nano-sat market typified by Multi-unit CubeSat individual systems • Science missions • Small satellite mega-constellations • Sub-50 kg satellite market evaluation based on SpaceWorks forecasts with additional analysis from market engagement with operators 10 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Market Analysis • Growth prediction Nano/micro satellites mass < 50kg 11 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Market Analysis • The sub 10kg market has dominated launches • Post 2014 reduction due to launch availability 12 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Market Analysis • Forecast identifies that commercial sector will dominate sub 50kg future market 13 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Cube Sat Constellations 14 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Small satellite Mega-Constellations • Opportunities developing with “mega - constellations” operating in LEO typified by One-Web (currently at CDR) and SpaceX and Samsung (speculative) • Anticipate cost to be a main system driver with any suitable EP system requiring mass production • Possible future markets: Maritime Surveillance 15 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Market Conclusions Conclusions A low cost EP technology could prove to be disruptive in 2 principal market areas, wherein both markets demonstrate existing/growing demand that HiperLoc-EP could enable: 1. Nano/Microsatellite market 2. Small satellite Mega-constellation 16 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Mission & Performance Considerations Mission studies carried out include : • NanoSats: Delfi-n3Xt, GOMX-4; • MicroSats: OHB QuadSats, • SmallSats: OneWeb, SWARM • Medium/large Satellites for science mission Functional requirements 17 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Mission & Performance Considerations • Wish-list requirements identified by customers (note unlikely to be able to meet all these for given systems due to performance conflicts) 18 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Updated technology verification target HiperLoc-EP Target Verification Performance Thrust Specific Thruster Total density Specific Thrust Thrust Volume Efficiency Impulse mN/cm^2 Impulse (sec) mN/kW target μN dm^3 % (Ns) 0.2 > 1000s ≥ 56 ≥ 500 n/a 50 2000 Note • Higher specific impulse is certainly achievable but this will increase cost • Thrust density is not a driving system requirement • Thrust level is geared towards perceived market rather than a limiting factor 19 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
System Highlights 20 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
System Highlights • All propellant and power is used propulsively: • no neutralizer required 21 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
System Highlights • Simple interface: only a power and data bus 22 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
System Highlights • PS&FS thermally integrated with CTH and PPU • Propellant is isolated from ground environment hence simple pre-launch storage 23 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
Conclusions • High efficiency: No neutralizer required • Novel propellants possible • HiperLoc-EP provides a radically different way to achieve the advantages of an electrospray colloid electric propulsion system • The paradigm shift in manufacturing approach will result in an improved performance to cost ratio by an order of magnitude • Hence anticipate HiperLoc-EP system will prove to be disruptive to markets adopting multi-unit CubeSats and with potential for new market mega-constellations of small satellites 24 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreem ent No 730075
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