An electric motorized dispenser for In-Orbit Servicing

The thesis work presented below was born in the context of a collaboration carried out with SAB Launch Services SRL of Benevento aimed at identifying an engineering solution based on motorizing the hexagonal module of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS). Given the nature of the company itself, the ultimate aim of this work will be to provide a starting point for the development of a system, here renamed IOSHEXA, essentially oriented to In-Orbit Servicing. At the request of SAB Launch Services itself, the analysis turned to an exclusively electric motorization, this choice therefore allowed the carrying out of a parametric mission analysis that would allow the identification of an ideal solution. The results obtained from the mission analysis for electric propulsion were then compared with the data of electric motors collected during these months of work in the company in order to identify, through a trade-off, the best real solution currently available among those considered.