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Inspecting the ILIS1 after the most recent test from a few days ago (test recap can be found in this post HERE), my observations during the test were confirmed, with some great news! No liquid creep failure at all this … Continued

Last night I ran the third ignition test of the AIS-EPPT1 micro pulsed plasma thruster. unfortunately, this was the most unsuccessful test of the EPPT1 yet. A couple of weak spurious pulses, followed by failure of the thruster due to … Continued

I am excited to announce that I had the opportunity to present at the 38th AMSAT Space Symposium! My talk, Progress and Developments in Open Source Electric Propulsion for Nanosats and Picosats at AIS, can be seen in the video … Continued

Last night I ran the 7th ignition test of the ILIS1 electrospray thruster. It was a long battle with low emission, but finally, right at the end, I cranked the thruster up to 5.8kV, achieving 40uA of emission, giving me … Continued

Very excited to have had the opportunity to participate in this year’s PocketQube Workshop 2020 organized by Alba Orbital! It is the only PQ dedicated conference out there, and I highly recommend checking out the talks to see some of … Continued

How Do You Make Electric Propulsion Systems In Your Basement? I am very excited to have had the chance to interview with the awesome Filling Space team! The interview covers the journey of how I got interested in EP and … Continued

Open Source Space Company I am very excited to have participated in this newly released deep-dive 5-part interview with JS Sweeney and the amazing BlackShip.One team! I had a fantastic time answering some incredibly multi-faceted questions on EP and my work through AIS developing … Continued

New V2 housing design for the EPPT1 micro pulsed plasma thruster already on its way! Changes include narrower and extended discharge chamber, square fuel rod, angled igniter for anode-side triggering at the center of the fuel bar, and embedded slot … Continued

Parts are on their way for the next and final test of the ILIS1! In order to tackle liquid creep failure, the housing has been modified to minimize any direct path between the emitter and extractor, and an additional shield … Continued

Last night I ran the second ignition test of the AIS-EPPT1 micro pulsed plasma thruster! For this test the thruster was modified for unconventional triggering to the anode with great success. During prior testing, it was observed that the igniter … Continued