NEW IONIC MONOPROPELLANT BASED ON N2O FOR SPACE PROPULSION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nitrous oxide-based monopropellant with no instability.SOLUTION: This monopropellant including a mixture containing nitrous oxide (NO) as an oxidant at least a part of which is in a liquid form, and salt form fuel in the liquid NO phase. The liquid phase is constituted of: (i) fuel in the form of a solid salt when isolated at room temperature and solubilized in NO at least partly present in a liquid form; or (ii) molten salt of the fuel in a binary mixture with NO at least partly present in a liquid form; or (iii) an ionic solution of the fuel dissolved in an organic or ionic energetic solvent, in a binary mixture with NO at least present in a liquid form.