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>A hydrazine propulsion system is installed on the spacecraft for orbit adjustment maneuvers and orbit maintenance providing a delta-v budget of more than 100 m
by cmsmith 11y ago
>A hydrazine propulsion system is installed on the spacecraft for orbit adjustment maneuvers and orbit maintenance providing a delta-v budget of more than 100 meters per second for each satellite.
>Because OG2 satellites are launched in groups of several spacecraft, they require propulsion systems to place the satellite into different nodal planes to begin operations.
There's the answer, courtesy Orbcomm.
- jacquesm 11y agoNeat :) So they do their own placement. Nasty stuff, hydrazine. F16's use it as emergency fuel.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoBut you can use it to grow space potatoes! :).
- JabavuAdams 11y agoAfter it chemically burns and then ignites you, yes.