| Successful tests of rocket engines open doors for ECAPS |
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The environmentally benign propulsion system HPGP, which makes it first spaceflight ever on the Swedish Prisma satellites, has been testfired for the first time in space.
The rocket engines, developed by the Swedish company ECAPS, are expected to be very prosperous after their flight qualification onboard Prisma. |
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On the Prisma satellites, ECAPS will verify the performance of its HPGP system (High Performance Green Propulsion). After this verification, this innovative system has every chance to gain significant shares of the international market.
”The value of this market is hundreds of thousands of dollars”, says Mathias Persson, CEO of ECAPS, a subsidiary of the Swedish Space Corporation. “ECAPS is the leading company in the field of environmentally benign storable liquid monopropellants. Since we started our development in 1997, we have presented our technology in many contexts and the interest for it is great. Up to now, the only thing missing has been the in-space verification. After these successful first tests, we feel confident that the continued comprehensive tests planned this autumn will come off just as well.”
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