Parker Solar Probe hydrazine propulsion subsystem
Parker Solar Probe's integrated blowdown monopropellant hydrazine propulsion subsystem uses twelve 4.4 N thrusters for both attitude control and trajectory-velocity maneuvers. The system includes the hydrazine tank and associated feed/control hardware.
Identity
- Aliases
- Parker Solar Probe hydrazine propulsion subsystemParker Solar Probe propulsion systemPSP hydrazine propulsion
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- integrated-system
- Kind
- integrated-propulsion-system
- Name
- Parker Solar Probe hydrazine propulsion subsystem
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Parker Solar Probe's integrated blowdown monopropellant hydrazine propulsion subsystem uses twelve 4.4 N thrusters for both attitude control and trajectory-velocity maneuvers. The system includes the hydrazine tank and associated feed/control hardware.
- Propellants
- hydrazine
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- Creation Time
- September 8, 2026 at 00:09:14 UTC
- Updated Time
- September 8, 2026 at 00:17:09 UTC
Other
- Search Name
- Parker Solar Probe hydrazine propulsion subsystem Parker Solar Probe hydrazine propulsion subsystem Parker Solar Probe propulsion system PSP hydrazine propulsion
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-09-08
- Note
- The flight-dynamics paper identifies the flown Parker Solar Probe blowdown monopropellant hydrazine propulsion system with 82.77 kg hydrazine at launch and twelve 4.4 N thrusters for attitude control and trajectory Delta-V maneuvers.
- Publisher
- 29th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics
- Title
- Parker Solar Probe Highly Constrained Maneuver Design via Vector Decomposition
- Accessed Date
- 2026-09-08
- Note
- The mission engineering account describes flown PSP use of monopropellant hydrazine for trajectory-correction maneuvers, attitude adjustments, and reaction-wheel momentum unloading.
- Publisher
- NASA/JPL DESCANSO
- Title
- Parker Solar Probe
- Accessed Date
- 2026-09-08
- Note
- NASA identifies Parker Solar Probe as an active mission and lists 685 kg spacecraft mass at launch with NASA Goddard and Johns Hopkins APL mission management.
- Publisher
- NASA Science
- Title
- Parker Solar Probe