A zero-propellant maneuver (ZPM) is an optimal attitude trajectory used to perform spacecraft rotational control without the need to use thrusters. ZPMs...

designers can estimate the propellant required for planned maneuvers. An impulsive maneuver is the mathematical model of a maneuver as an instantaneous change...

with the depot, or vice versa, and then transfer propellant to be used for subsequent orbital maneuvers. In 2011, Intelsat showed interest in an initial...

November 5, 2006, NASA used DIDO to maneuver the International Space Station to perform the zero-propellant maneuver. Since this flight demonstration, DIDO...

possible time. As a result the Oberth maneuver is much more useful for high-thrust rocket engines like liquid-propellant rockets, and less useful for low-thrust...

inert and non-toxic nature of their propellants. Main article: Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit The Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit (HHMU) used on the Gemini 4 and...

In aerospace engineering, the propellant mass fraction is the portion of a vehicle's mass which does not reach the destination, usually used as a measure...

SMO-016E (Clinical_Nutrition_Assessment) International Space Station Zero-Propellant Maneuver (ZPM) Demonstration (ZPM) Analysis of International Space Station...

Bedrossian, Nazareth (June 20, 2018). "International Space Station Zero-Propellant Maneuver (ZPM) Demonstration". National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket uses a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids...

International Space Station. In 2006, NASA used DIDO to implement zero propellant maneuvering of the International Space Station. In 2007, SIAM News printed...

Mexico Zero-propellant maneuver, an optimal attitude trajectory used to perform spacecraft rotational control without the need to use thrusters Zero Point...

when NASA used DIDO to maneuver the International Space Station to perform the Zero Propellant Maneuver. The Zero Propellant Maneuver was discovered by Nazareth...

The Hohmann maneuver often uses the lowest possible amount of impulse (which consumes a proportional amount of delta-v, and hence propellant) to accomplish...

to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of...

the Moon, and Mars, Starship will rely on orbital propellant refilling; a ship-to-ship propellant transfer demonstration is expected to occur in 2025...

and attitude control, as well as providing limited propellant and thrust to use for orbital maneuvers to better rendezvous with other spacecraft that would...

the propellant requirements, or determine the total delta-v available from a given amount of propellant, for the mission. Most on-orbit maneuvers can...

aborts.: 106–107  The Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) consisted of two aft-mounted AJ10-190 engines and the associated propellant tanks. The AJ10 engines used...

perform each propulsive maneuver needed during the mission. As input to the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, it determines how much propellant is required for a...

world. In 2006, NASA used the Ross–Fahroo method to implement the "zero propellant maneuver" on board the International Space Station. In recognition of all...

from the back acts as a propellant (the reaction mass), the vehicle therefore has a limited fuel supply but an unlimited propellant supply. A normal Bussard...

A gravity turn or zero-lift turn is a maneuver used in launching a spacecraft into, or descending from, an orbit around a celestial body such as a planet...

the use of self-generated gaseous propellant to pressurize liquid propellant in rockets. Traditional liquid-propellant rockets have been most often pressurized...

heliocentric trajectory. These propellants could be stored on orbit at a propellant depot, or carried to orbit in a propellant tanker to be directly transferred...

35% if all other flow-rates are held constant from a zero g startup. Ultimately, the fuel-propellant flows will have to be throttled until the rocket approaches...

excessively increase propellant mass needed under the rocket equation, with too high a fraction of energy going into accelerating propellant not used yet. Higher...

Field propulsion is the concept of spacecraft propulsion where no propellant is necessary but instead momentum of the spacecraft is changed by an interaction...

the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket. In an NTR, a working fluid, usually liquid hydrogen...

The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight...