A lightweight fuel tank for small-scale satellites has been designed and developed by metal additive manufacture engineers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, as part of a pioneering UK Space Agency-funded programme.
With the annual number of small satellites deployed forecast to reach about 400 this year, an increase of 300% compared to 2016, there is a growing market need to dramatically expand their mission capabilities, extend their orbital life and decrease the cost of constellation deployment. Current nanosatellite and microsatellite propellant storage systems either use volume-inefficient…
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