I'm not quite sure what you mean by "impulse management" in this context.
Attitude control after MECO is done with cold gas thrusters by all the
newspace orbital rockets, as far as I've seen. Deployable mechanisms are
designed to not need separation solid rocket motors or anything like that.
Glenair and Ensign Bickford both sell COTS non-pyro release mechanisms that
work conceptually the same as pyro.
https://www.glenair.com/micro-seminar-series/hold-down-and-release-mechanisms-for-non-pyrotechnic-release-of-satellites-and-appendages.htm
https://www.ebad.com/non-pyro-mechanisms/
These are dinospace contractors, so I assume SpaceX is already making their
own in-house for their reusable fairings and that some new small company
building them at more reasonable prices will be rolled up into one of the
katamari damacy newspace companies any day now.
Could be totally wrong but I would be surprised if there were very many
pyrotechnic releases in one of SpaceX's clown car missions. There's no mass
sensitivity and the whole integration process is easier with fewer
explosives around.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:01 AM Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 20.01.22 um 20:28 schrieb Ben Brockert:
Non-pyrotechnic stage separation put stuff into orbit last year, thatimpulse management or separation/release ?
one doesn't sound like an unconsidered practice.
Uwe
