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session 9

Title: Disruptive Propulsion Concepts for Enabling New Missions
type: oral
Description: This session will explore advanced and disruptive propulsion technologies, systems, ideas (including integration of different propulsion concepts) showing potential to enable new mission concepts, or to enhance the capabilities of current mission concepts.
Date: 2025-10-03
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C3.6

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Elena Toson, T4i, Italy;
Co-Chair: Prof. Sabrina Corpino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy;
Rapporteur: Mr. Giorgio Saccoccia, European Space Agency (ESA), France;
Rapporteur: Dr. Christian Bach, Technische Universität Dresden (DTU), Germany;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Water Electrolysis Propulsion Thrusters: Recent advancements and technology development roadmap within the Ice2Thrust project and beyond	12		Mr. Sascha Dengler	Technical University of Munich	Germany
2	10:27	From Water and Sunlight to Thrust: New Propulsion Technologies within the Green SWaP Project	12		Dr. Alberto Sarritzu	University of Pisa	Italy
3	10:39	Optimization of Rotating Detonation Engines: A Novel Injection Technique and Combustion Geometry Enhancement for Improved Performance	12		Mr. ABHISHEK AS	VIT Bhopal University	India
4	10:51	Kinetic Slingshot Launch System for Sustainable Lunar Infrastructure: Feasibility and Design Considerations	12		Mrs. Noor Hureirat		Jordan
5	11:03	Artificial Equilibrium Points for Electrostatic Flight in Airless Moon Environments (E-Glider Technology)	12		Dr. Jesús Manuel Muñoz Tejeda	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory	United States
6	11:15	Superconductors in Space: Theoretical Models for Energy Transmission, Shielding, and Magnetic Sails	12		Mr. Sayan Ray	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras	India
7	11:27	on-orbit demonstration plan for an autonomous health monitoring technology towards realization of resilient spacecraft propulsion system	12		Dr. Kaname Kawatsu	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
8	11:39	Analysis of a Launch Vehicle Upper Stage as a Momentum Exchange Tether Deployer	12		Mr. Ben Campbell	University of Alabama in Huntsville	United States
9	11:51	The Impact of High Entropy Environments on Advanced Propulsion Systems in Space	12		Mr. Yash Thaker		India
10	12:03	Advancing Propulsion Systems through In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU): A Computational Approach for Sustainable Interplanetary Missions	12		Mr. Yuvraj Pagare	University of Hertfordshire	United Kingdom
*		sustainable propulsion in low earth orbit: algae and seaweed based biofuels for space exploration applications	12	confirmed	Ms. Anchal Bhupal	VIT Bhopal University	India
*		Water-Based Integrated Multimodal Propulsion: A Disruptive Solution for Efficient In-Orbit Servicing and Space Debris Removal Missions	12		Dr. Chengyu Ma	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China