Terran Orbital designed, built, integrated, and operated the spacecraft for the first PTD satellite, PTD-1, to demonstrate a propulsion system using a water-based propellant generated via water electrolysis.
Terran Orbital designed, built, integrated, and operated the spacecraft for the first PTD satellite, PTD-1, to demonstrate a propulsion system using a water-based propellant generated via water electrolysis.
Terran Orbital designed, built, integrated, and operated the spacecraft for the first Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator satellite, PTD-1, to demonstrate a propulsion system using a water-based propellant generated via water electrolysis.
The PTD-1 demonstration will test propulsion performance through programmed thrust events that change PTD-1’s velocity and altitude.
PTD-1 launched as part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites 35 provided by the CubeSat Launch Initiative.
PTD-1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 2021-01-24.
NASA plans to test the Hydros-C thruster on its Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator PTD-1 mission.
PTD-1 is scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in November and then travel to a higher altitude to deploy from a Cygnus cargo tug.