• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.84-90
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• 2004

A performance evaluation is made in terms of thrust, impulse bit. and specific impulses for a set of mono-propellant hydrazine thrusters producing 0.95 lbf of nominal thrust at an inlet pressure of 350 psia. With a brief description on the hot-firing test configuration and procedures. a typical data obtained from steady-state firing mode is given directly showing the variational behavior of propellant supply pressure, mass flow rate, vacuum condition, and thrust. The performance features are successfully compared to the reference criteria of 1-lbf standard mono-propellant rocket engine. Additionally. a statistical inter-thruster treatment is concisely depicted for the justification of selected thrusters as a grouped member of flight model for spacecraft propulsion system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.18-26
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• 2007

A development of monopropellant thruster for microsatellite that uses concentrated hydrogen peroxide is described. Catalyst, the most important component in the thruster, was prepared and coated on a monolith honeycomb. Performance evaluation of thruster was peformed by considering the efficiency of characteristic velocity and ignition delay. As a result, 96.0% of $C^*$ efficiency was obtained at designed propellant flowrate and steady state operating condition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.59-66
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• 1995

인공위성의 궤도진입, 궤도수정 및 자세제어를 담당하는 추진체계는 위성의 용도와 궤도위치, 자세/궤도제어 방식 등을 고려하여 설계하여야 한다. 현재까지도 널리 사용되고 있는 인공위성 추진체계는 AKM(Apogee Kick Motor)과 단일 추진제 추력기로 구성된 "통상 추진체계"이나 최근에는 AKE(Apogee Kick Engine)과 이원 추진제추력기로 구성된 "통합 추진체계" 그리고 이와 유사한 "완전통합 추진체계", "이중 추진체계" 등이 기술적 선택방안으로 제안되어 일부 적용되고 있는 실정이며 이러한 추진체계의 효과적 실용화를 위해서 단일 추진제(하이드라진) 추력기의 성능향상 및 이원 추진제 엔진과 이원 추진제 추력기의 기술개선 연구가 이루어지고 있다.원 추진제 엔진과 이원 추진제 추력기의 기술개선 연구가 이루어지고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.194-197
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• 2005

Pulse-mode performance evaluation is made for a set of monopropellant hydrazine thrusters producing $0.95 lb_{f}$ of nominal steady-state thrust at an inlet pressure of 350 psia. With a brief description on the hot-firing test matrix, a typical data obtained from pulse-mode firing is given directly showing the variational behavior of propellant supply pressure, vacuum condition, and thrust, in addition to the thermal response of the thruster. The performance features are successfully compared to the reference criteria of 1-lbf standard monopropellant rocket engine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.406-408
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• 2017

Ammonium dinitramide (ADN) Low toxicity monopropellant based 1N class thruster and test equipment were developed. Compared with the hydrazine which used in existing satellite thruster, ADN is easy to handle and has excellent physical characteristics such as density and specific impulse. Due to these characteristics, ADN is attracting attention as an eco-friendly propellant. In this paper, 1N class thruster and thrust measurement system was designed for performance testing of ADN monopropellant. The composition of the propellant for the design and experiment was set at 11.2: 25.4: 63.4 for each of Methanol: $H_2O$: ADN.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.145-148
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• 2008

A 50 Newton monopropellant thruster being developed for attitude control in a variety of aerospace application systems is described in this paper. A scaled down thruster with platinum on aluminum oxide in the reaction chamber was tested to determine the catalyst capacity. A scaled up thruster, was designed and fabricated using data obtained on small scale device, was evaluated by decomposition efficiency based on temperature, efficiency of characteristic velocity, and measurement of thrust. The performance of a scaled up thruster was 42 Newton in thrust, 98 % in efficiency of characteristic velocity, and 123 sec in specific impulse at sea level.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.24-33
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• 2008

A 50 Newton monopropellant thruster being developed for attitude control in a variety of aerospace application systems is described in this paper. A scaled down thruster with platinum on aluminum oxide in the reaction chamber was tested to determine the catalyst capacity. A scaled up thruster which was designed and fabricated using data obtained from a small scale device was evaluated by its decomposition efficiency based on the temperature, the efficiency of characteristic velocity, and the measurement of thrust. The performance of a scaled up thruster was marked by a measured thrust of 42 Newton, 98 % efficiency of the characteristic velocity, a specific impulse of 123 sec at sea level.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2009

Design and performance evaluation of $H_2O_2$ monopropellant thrusters to be used at attitude control of space launch vehicles were presented in this paper. Flight model thrusters were designed after two reactors for 100, 250 Newton were conformed at engineering model. Each thruster was evaluated by measurement of characteristic velocity, thrust, specific impulse, and pulse response times.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.92-98
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• 2006

An 1 lbf of NASA standard monopropellant thruster, MRE-1, is used for KOMPSAT (Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite) which is launched in 2006 and provides reliable and cost-effective means for attitude and maneuvering control system. The monopropellant thruster obtains required thrust by thermal decomposition process of propellant through catalyst bed. During firing, the decomposition plays a role of a heat source that may occur an excessive radiation heat transfer to peripheral structures and electronics in relatively low temperature condition.Therefore, the radiation heat shield is needed to prevent the critical radiative heat exchange between thruster and satellite during firing. This paper summarizes an overall development process of radiation heat shield from the design engineering up to the manufacturing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.30-30
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• 1998

다목적 실용위성의 자세 제어용으로 장착되는 하이드라진 단일 추진제 추력기의 연소성능 특성을 살펴보았다. 일차적으로, 연소기내의 화학 평형 계산을 통하여 하이드라진 연소 생성물인 암모니아의 분해율과 초기 엔탈피 수준에 따른 추력기의 성능 특성을 살펴보았다. 다음 순서로, 연소기 내의 비평형 화학 반응 계산을 통하여 연소진행 시간에 화학 조성 및 성능 특성을 살펴 볼 수 있었으며, 최종적으로, 점성 및 비점성, 동결 및 비평형 화학 반응 해석에 따른 성능 특성 변화를 살펴보았다. 본 연구 결과로부터 각 작동 변수에 따른 추격기 성능 특성의 변화를 이해할 수 있었으며, 이는 단일 추진제 추력기 연소실의 구성, 설계 및 추력기의 운용 조건 설정에 중요한 자료로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.