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
- Room
- 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;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 10:15 | 10 | confirmed | Mrs. Maria Smirnova | TransMIT GmbH | Germany | |
2 | 10:25 | 10 | confirmed | Ms. Noor Hureirat | ASELSAN | 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 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Nobuaki Aoki | Kanazawa Institute of Technology | Japan | |
6 | 11:05 | 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 | 11:15 | Mars Atmosphere-Breathing RF Thruster: Design, Vacuum Tests, and Performance in Low Martian Orbits | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Pavel Smirnov | TransMIT GmbH | Germany |
9 | 11:25 | Initial Experimental Characterization of an RIT Thruster for ABEP | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Meenakshee Sharma | Orbitt Space | India |
10 | 11:35 | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Renwei Tan | University of Padova, CISAS – “G. Colombo” Center of Studies and Activities for Space | Italy | |
11 | 11:45 | The expansion of ABEP concept for stable long term VLEO flights | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Vasilii Dudin | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
13 | 11:55 | Orbit-Cycling ABEP system using Gas Storage Strategy for Sustainable VLEO Operations | 10 | confirmed | Mr. Chenxi Xia | Beihang University (BUAA) | China |
14 | 12:05 | Design, Simulation and Experimental Test of an Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion CubeSat | 10 | confirmed | Dr. Yuxuan Zhong | National University of Defense Technology | China |
15 | 12:15 | 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 |