Yavin Thruster

What is the core technology the project will work on?
Undergraduate level rocket propulsion, structural mechanics, pneumatic controls, basic embedded systems instrumentation and control.

I think this question was directed more at the primary thing it does. In this case I'd expect something like "burning and directing fuel to create controlled thrust" or "releasing pressurized gas in a controlled manner to create thrust" or something else if the thruster work a different way. "Undergraduate level rocket propulsion" isn't a technology and a list of different technologies probably means some of them aren't the core of the project. A lot of those should probably be listed in the next question, "other technologies". The purpose is to ensure that later if State challenges our interpretation of what we're doing we can point to peer review of what we thought we were doing.

Does this project make use of any specialized, pre-existing knowledge?
Undergraduate level rocket propulsion technologies as published in commonly available textbooks such as Space Propulsion Analysis and Design (SPAD).

Can you add a more specific reference? This is one of those things where, if we ever had to defend it, we'd probably have to point to where we got the information. Might as well do it now.

The only other comment I have is that your analysis and documentation of the conceptual space was awesome! That looks like a really solid base that will allow us to confidently say we don't have to worry about EC. Also, it will give us something we can point other interested parties at.