{"id":55531,"date":"2022-04-23T01:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/afrl-project-is-explores-green-power-systems-for-satellites\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:26:03","slug":"afrl-project-is-explores-green-power-systems-for-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/afrl-project-is-explores-green-power-systems-for-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRL Project is Explores \u2018Green\u2019 Power Systems for Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Air Force Research Laboratory<\/b> (AFRL) is developing a \u201cgreen energy\u201d technology designed to allow thruster equipped spacecraft to convert chemical energy in its bipropellant into electrical power. The technology is being developed by the Space Vehicles Directorate through a three-year Seedlings for Disruptive Capabilities Program effort which has been underway for 18 months. AFRL highlighted the tech in an announcement tied to Earth Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The technology is called BEEPS \u2014 Bipropellant Enabled Electrical Power Supply. Program Manager Dr. Thomas Peng said the AFRL wants to improve the power generated from carbon-free fuels to offer high performance power without fossil fuels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solid oxide fuel cells created by this effort will enable bipropellant thruster-equipped spacecraft to convert chemical energy in its bipropellant, into on-demand electrical power,\u201d said Dr. Thomas Peng, program manager for BEEPS. \u201cSuch technology would allow spacecraft operators to tap stowed bipropellant to get a boost of electrical power or act as an auxiliary power supply if needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One application for this fuel cell and electrolysis technology would be to store energy collected when wind or solar power is available, which could then be used when those power sources are unavailable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is developing a \u201cgreen energy\u201d technology designed to allow thruster equipped spacecraft to convert chemical energy in its bipropellant into electrical power. The technology is being developed by the Space Vehicles Directorate through a three-year Seedlings for Disruptive Capabilities Program effort which has been underway for 18 months. AFRL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}