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FEMTA Selected for NASA Small Spacecraft Collaboration

Event Date: December 1, 2017
Credit: Purdue Engineering
AAE graduate student Kate Fowee showing 1U cubesat prototype with four FEMTA microthrusters
This award will further develop a film-evaporation micro-scale thruster that uses water as a propellant for precision pointing and attitude control of small spacecraft and deployable structures.

See the full NASA report on the awards here.

Related Link: https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/news/2017/20171201-NASA-Purdue-spacecraft