iFACT is an @EU_H2020 funded project developing the Advanced Cusp Field Thruster technology using iodine as propellant 🛰 #H2020 #space #electric #propulsion

Joined March 2020
iFACT Project retweeted
#Freewebinar for students and young professionals: Electric propulsion, innovation, career opportunities, work on international projects. Learn more - save the date now. More about the webinar: bit.ly/EP-GIESEPPMP-webinar
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🗓️SAVE THE DATE The first #HorizonEU Info-Days ever will take place online from 28 June to 9 July 2021👏 The event will address 9 themes featuring exclusive discussions and hands-on sessions. ℹ️ No registration needed! Learn more👉europa.eu/!qF89nU
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iFACT Project retweeted
This spiked tungsten crown measuring just 1 cm in diameter – half the size of a ten cent euro coin – is at the heart of Europe’s smallest, most precise spacecraft thruster esa.int/Enabling_Support/Spa…
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#FollowFriday Welcome to @collaborate_eu @EU_CLASS @RUMBLE_H2020 @IfactProject @ProjectSlowd🙌Looking forward to interacting on innovative research projects funded under #Horizon2020 🇪🇺
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iFACT Project retweeted
📢Our @CHEOPS_H2020 project, coordinated by @SafranEngines, is featured in the last issue of @EUDissemination PRj issue 5. Download and read about the future of #space #ElectricPropulsion ➡️ cheops-h2020.eu/wp/wp-conten…
The #iodine-based propulsion systems promise to change the #space sector! 🛰️ 🌌 A solution which is being developed by the 🇪🇺funded project iFACT seeks to provide a technology which is both efficient and low-cost alternative to #xenon propellant system. bit.ly/3dRBDje
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One small step for Sputnik, one giant leap for satellite innovation. As more #satellites are being launched into #space, the technology is rapidly evolving 🛰️ In our latest #researchEU magazine we set out to explore the latest innovations in Satellite sector.

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RIP Albert Uderzo, the French comic book artist and illustrator of the Astérix series. This comic book is so legendary in France that the first French artificial satellite, launched into space on Nov. 1965, was named Astérix!
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This year will see the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a self-organising, three-dimensional formation of pico-satellites 🛰️ In our latest #researchEU magazine we interviewed a @ERC_Research supported project NetSat. #Satellites #Space ➡️bit.ly/NetSat
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iFACT Project retweeted
Iodine as alternative propellant for electric propulsion zpr.io/tCWvG, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2020 iFACT (iodine Fed Advanced Cusp field Thruster) project was successfully launched in Friedrichshafen, Germany in January 2020. Funded by the European Commission as part
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iFACT Project retweeted
Horizon Magazine@HorizonMagEU10 Mar 2020
How can we use space sustainably? One approach being worked on is a new generation of modular satellites that can easily be upgraded by a servicing robot ➡️bit.ly/SpaceRobotics
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iFACT Project retweeted
🎞SPH computation of a #sloshing tank! In this video by @ProjectSlowd partners @La_UPM and @StampaCnr-Inm we can visualize 3 sec of #SPH_ #simulation when a tank is moved with a damped harmonic motion 👉🏻slowd-project.eu/news/sph-co… @cehinav #H2020Transport #SimulationFriday #INEA
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Interested in global navigation satellite 🛰️ systems (GNSS)? If you’re a graduate student, PhD candidate, early-stage researcher or young professional, join the international summer school we organise with @esa from 20 to 31 July 2020 in Krakow, 🇵🇱 👉 europa.eu/!Cx34wt
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iFACT Project retweeted
📢@ProjectSlowd experimental tests go on! 🎞10g sloshing experiment of a one degree of freedom system for fluid induced #damping #research by #SLOWD partner @La_UPM 👉🏻 slowd-project.eu/news/10g-sl… #h2020 #inea #H2020Transport #Aviation #CFD
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Could electric propulsion be the future of spaceflight? skyatnightmagazine.com/space…
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