The portfolio of current NESC technical activities reaches across mission directorates and programs encompassing design, test ...

When operational, the liquid hydrazine thruster should release tiny, extremely short puffs of gas in order to adjust ... Turning on a thruster when it has been cold for so long could result ...

And potentially outside the atmosphere, to wit: we present his reaction control gas thruster-controlled drone. Before anyone gets too excited, [Tom] isn’t building drones for use in a vacuum ...

Outside the atmosphere, ReFEx is controlled by the cold gas thrusters of a reaction control system (RCS), whereby several maneuvers are performed to calibrate the sensors and navigation system and to ...