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session 9

Title: Disruptive Propulsion Concepts for Enabling New Missions
type: oral
Description: This session will explore advanced and disruptive propulsion technologies, systems, ideas (including integration of different propulsion concepts) showing potential to enable new mission concepts, or to enhance the capabilities of current mission concepts.
Date: 2026-10-09
Time: 10:15
Room: E6

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Justin Hardi, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany;
Co-Chair: Dr. Christian Bach, Technische Universität Dresden (DTU), Germany;
Rapporteur: Mr. Markus Jaeger, The Exploration Company GmbH, Germany;
Rapporteur: Dr. Marco Di Clemente, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Impulse Transfer Thruster for Active Debris Removal	10	confirmed	Mrs. Maria Smirnova		Germany
2	10:25	Simulation-Driven Structural Dynamics and Design Refinement of a Lunar Kinetic Slingshot Launcher: Flexible Arm–Hub Modeling and CFRP Failure Assessment	10	confirmed	Ms. Noor Hureirat	Jordan Design and Development Bureau (JODDB)	Jordan
3	10:35	Heated Helium Thruster Testbench for Replicating Hydrazine Plume Characteristics at Mars Pressure	10	confirmed	Mrs. Charlotte Heibig	Caltech/JPL	Switzerland
4	10:45	ENCORE: Water Electrolysis Propulsion System Concept for a self sustaiong Enceladus Explorer Mission	10	confirmed	Mr. Fabian Riegelsberger	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	Germany
5	10:55	Mechanisms of Circumferential Momentum, Combustion Completion, and Pressure Loss in Combustor–Nozzle Coupled RDEs for Achieving Propulsion Advantages over Conventional Rocket Engines	10	confirmed	Mr. Nobuaki Aoki	Kanazawa Institute of Technology	Japan
6	11:05	Mission Proposal and Development Status of Air-Breathing Ion Engine On-orbit Experiment (ABIE-X)	10	confirmed	Mr. Tomotaka Yamamoto	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
7	11:15	Spatial and Temporal Control of Laser-Supported Plasma in Continuous-Wave Laser Propulsion Systems	10	confirmed	Mr. Futa Hayashi	Kanazawa Institute of Technology	Japan
8	11:25	Autonomous electrodynamic tether for low-orbit spacecraft propulsion	10		Mr. Pavel Bechasnov	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russian Federation
9	11:35	Mars Atmosphere-Breathing RF Thruster: Design, Vacuum Tests, and Performance in Low Martian Orbits	10	confirmed	Dr. Pavel Smirnov	TransMIT GmbH	Germany
10	11:45	Initial Experimental Characterization of an RIT Thruster for ABEP	10	confirmed	Dr. Meenakshee Sharma	Orbitt Space	India
11	11:55	Combining Metasurfaces and Electrodeless Space Propulsion	10	confirmed	Dr. Mirko Magarotto	Università degli Studi di Padova	Italy
12	12:05	The expansion of ABEP concept for stable long term VLEO flights	10	confirmed	Mr. Vasilii Dudin	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
13	12:15	A cryopump-based propellant collection system for an Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion (ABEP) satellite in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO)	10	confirmed	Ms. Esme Griffiths-Nowicki	Cranfield University, Cranfield UK	United Kingdom
14	12:25	Orbit-Cycling ABEP system using Gas Storage Strategy for Sustainable VLEO Operations	10	confirmed	Mr. Chenxi Xia	Beihang University (BUAA)	China
15	12:35	Design, Simulation and Experimental Test of an Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion CubeSat	10	confirmed	Dr. Yuxuan Zhong	National University of Defense Technology	China