The Gateway is an upcoming long term lunar exploration program to be completed by NASA in partnership with ESA and other US and international partners. The system design of the Gateway contains both a high performance Xenon based Solar Electric Propulsion system, as well as a bi-propellant attitude control system. Both propulsion systems are designed for on-orbit refuelling to enable long life performance of the Gateway. The ESPRIT-RM is a module which will expand the pressurized volume of Gateway, while also providing refuelling capability for both the Xenon and Bipropellant propulsion systems, therefore extending the Gateway life on orbit. As part of the Gateway bi-propellant refuelling system development, a simplified fluidic breadboard system was created to evaluate system performance and response using simulant fluids. The test plan includes verification activities with simulant (water, HFE-7100) to verify joined subsystem behaviour in the critical operations, including propellant transfer demonstration between modules, transient tests and venting tests. Integrated testing will occur at TASUK in collaboration with NASA to support joint verification activities to de-risk the major functions of the ESPRIT Bipropellant Transfer Subsystem (BTS) and the overall CONOPS of the refuelling of the Gateway chemical propulsion system. Initially collected test data is presented and has shown the architected system performance is closing initial design assumptions, but much forward work is identified to continue to characterize and develop the system.


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    Title :

    Joint Development Testing of the Integrated Gateway-Esprit Bipropellant Refuelling System


    Contributors:
    Sebastian Hill (author) / Andrew Hughes (author) / Giancarlo Wellons (author) / Laura Hoyland (author) / Brandie Rhodes (author) / Adela Han (author) / Brian Lusby (author) / Pooja Desai (author) / Chris Radke (author) / Olivier Zagoni (author)

    Conference:

    8th Edition of the Space Propulsion Conference ; 2022 ; Estoril , PT


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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