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Future Developments in Liquid Propellant Technology<br />

Need:<br />

Environmentally friendly, safer propellants.<br />

• Current spacecraft and satellite users and manufacturers are looking for more<br />

environmentally friendly, safe propellants. These can reduce cost by eliminating<br />

the need for self-contained atmospheric protective ensemble (SCAPE) suits that<br />

are needed for <strong>to</strong>xic propellants.<br />

• Moreover, extensive and prohibitive propellant safety precautions, and isolation of<br />

the space vehicle from parallel activities during propellant loading operations can<br />

be minimized or eliminated. If used on these satellites, the costs for operating the<br />

vehicles will be lowered, in some cases dramatically.

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