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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2020
Applicant:
Thrustme, Paris, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
THRUSTME, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/26 (2006.01); B64G 1/40 (2006.01); F02K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/402 (2013.01); B64G 1/26 (2013.01); B64G 1/403 (2013.01); F02K 9/343 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a space cold gas thruster operating with a solid propellant. The cold gas thruster includes a tank suitable for containing a solid propellant and a tank heating device suitable for sublimating the solid propellant and forming gaseous propellant, the tank having an aperture for transferring the gaseous propellant outside the tank, such as a nozzle. Also disclosed is a process for determining the amount of remaining propellant in the propellant tank of the disclosed cold gas thruster.