Patent Approved for Space Propulsion System Poised to Transform Orbital Space Logistics
Other companies have propulsion systems that can use water as propellant, Sercel explained, but all of them are powered by costly electric propulsion systems.
- Other companies have propulsion systems that can use water as propellant, Sercel explained, but all of them are powered by costly electric propulsion systems.
- The first generation of Worker Bee space tugs will use water launched from the earth, with later generations of TransAstra tugs using water or other propellants harvested in space.
- TransAstras other existing and pending patents relate to the space resource mining technology it is developing precisely for the purpose of harvesting water as propellant in space.
- Founded in 2017, TransAstra (TransAstra.com) is a U.S. orbital logistics and space mining company advancing the industrialization and settlement of space through the sustainable and ethical development of critical, dual-use space infrastructure technologies powered by the resources of space and the energy of the sun.