Since many years, Alcatel Space has been developing skills on the monopropellant propulsion system, in order to be able to design, integrate, test, fill and launch its own sub-system. This following article gives a view on several activities present at Alcatel Space, beginning with the Proteus design and its problematic, following with the tests experience and ending with some reflections on the offloading problem and on the possible ways to optimise the fuelling activities.
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