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Princeton Satellite Systems

Author: Joseph Mueller

  • DFD at the IEPC

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    Explosions. Orbits. Stuff hurtling through space at high speed. At the George Washington University campus last week, eyes young and old were trained on the screen, witnessing an amazing story of what can happen in space. And no, it was not “Gravity”. Nothing against Ms. Bullock or Mr. Clooney, but the 33rd International Electric Propulsion…

  • Direct Fusion Drive to Mars – A FISO Talk

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    The Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group invited us to give a talk in their weekly seminar track. On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, we gave a presentation entitled “Direct Fusion Drive for Fast Mars Missions with the Orion Spacecraft”. You can find the slides we presented in their online archive here. We first discussed the need…

  • Move it or lose it!

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    Space is silent. No air, no sound. This must have seemed strange on February 10, 2009, when the satellites “Kosmos-2251” and “Iridium 33” collided, shattering the spacecraft into more than 2,000 pieces of debris. Now, each of these pieces presents a new risk of collision to our satellites in low Earth orbit. The potential to…

  • Is that a spaceship in your pocket?

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    I remember the day my dad brought home our very first VCR. It was a glorious invention. No longer were our family outings constrained by the TV Guide. This nifty VCR would magically record our favorite shows and allow us to play them back whenever we wanted. It wasn’t long before we had a cabinet…