Electrodynamic Technologies

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Electrodynamic Technologies, LLC, is working to make propellantless propulsion a reality. The advent of propellantless propulsion has significant implications for spaceflight, and will change the way we think about space.

Electrodynamic propulsion is propellantless and does not require fuel. Electrodynamic vehicles can be assembled from nano-satellite components and thin tape conductors, but they can move multi-ton payloads in low Earth orbits. Many missions that were inconceivable before become now possible. One of the most striking examples is wholesale removal of large debris from low Earth orbits and their possible recycling. There are other very promising applications as well.

We are also developing novel methods of in-space assembly of structures that cannot be launched from the ground in their complete form. The ability to launch parts and autonomous robotic agents capable of assembling large structures in orbit will open completely new ways of operation in space.