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Advanced Ionic Liquid Monopropellant for Payload Ascent Vehicles, Phase I
Completed
Description
We propose to develop a monopropellant replacement for hydrazine using eutectic mixtures of ionic liquids (EILs). These liquids offer us the ability to tailor fluid and chemical properties, are safe to handle and burn cleanly. They also offer potentially higher performance as a monopropellant than hydrazine.
Details
| Technology area | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing > Ground Computing > Automated Exascale Software Development Toolset |
| Program | Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer (SBIR/STTR) |
| Lead organization | Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA |
| Start date | 2009-01-22 |
| End date | 2009-07-22 |
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