These ESPs (Electronically Controlled Propellant) are an entirely new class of energetic material: clean, storable, and insensitive to ignition by spark or flame.

The ECESP does not easily burn like conventional solid propellants

ESP Advantages

• Electrically Controlled Solid Propellant
• Throttling
• Scalability
• Custom Configurations - Arrays, Clusters, and Coaxial Arrangements
• Safe, On/Off Operation
• "Green," Non-Polluting Materials

New Applications:

• Insensitive Munitions
• Igniters and matches
• Micro and Pico Satellites
• On Demand Gas Generating Systems
• Safe Special Effects for Film and Stage
• Tamper-Proof Electronics

ESP microthrusters are modular; simply attach a controller and fire to your own application’s requirements. For gas generation, ESP microthrusters may be replaced as simply as a battery.

Excerpt from Wayne Sawka's 2007 JANNAF paper:

While current ammonium nitrate based propellants are relatively benign, ammonium perchlorate (AP) based propellants (among others) continue to leave a costly environmental legacy in vertebrate thyroid/reproductive health (Fitzgerald, 1992 and Brecher et al, 2000) and by the destruction of amphibian populations (Goleman et. al. 2002).   The California EPA has a perchlorate “goal”of 6 ppb for drinking water, but Colorado River water has historically exceeded these limits (Kay, 2004 and EPA, 2005).  In food, the Colorado River perchlorate concentrates in lettuce among other crops consumed throughout the United States (Blake, 2007).  

DSSP Electric Propellants do not use AP

References Cited:

Brechner, R.J., (2000), Ammonium Perchlorate Contamination of Colorado River Drinking Water Is Associated with Abnormal thyroid function in Newborns in Arizona.  J. Occup. Environ. Med. Aug; 42(8): pp 777-782.Blake, C. (2007), Lower Colorado River Basin Crops Fair Well in Perchlorate Testing. Western Farm Press, Jan., 11.EPA (2006), Perchlorate Monitoring Results: Henderson, Nevada to the Lower Colorado River. December 2005 report, Feb. 6Fitzgerald, P. A., (1992) Handbook of Clinical Endocrinology, 2nd edition, Applton & Lange Goleman, W.L., J.A. Carr and T.A. Anderson (2002), Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Ammonium Perchlorate Inhibit Thyroid Function and Alter Sex Ratios in Developing Xenopus Laevis.  Environ. Tox. and Chem. V 21, Issue 3, pp 590-597.