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2022-12-30 20:04 UTC
Brill took time off to raise her children, then returned to work in 1966, when she joined RCA Astro Electronics in Princeton.
In an interview with the Society of Women Engineers she recalled many of the challenges she faced.
https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Yvonne_Brill
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@mcnees@mastodon.social 2022-12-30 20:07
The following year, in 1967, she designed the electrothermal hydrazine thruster (EHT) — more commonly referred to as the hydrazine resistojet. It allowed for more efficient positioning of satellites, and reduced the weight of propellant they had to carry. https://patents.google.com/patent/US3807657A/en